NATIVE GOLD.
Yesterday afternoon, a specimen of gold was submitted to us for inspection, said to have been found within a moderate distance of Auckland, and supposed to have been found on or about the Manukau ranges. The finder, as might be expected, declines to disclose the locality. He was in possession of two specimens, one of which he disposed of for the sum of £5 ; a portion of the other was shewn to us. We give the statement as given to us, vouching personally for nothing. We have boon unable to satisfy ourselves as yet that the specimens in question were really found iv the country ; but call attention, for the prosent^to the fact that the alleged finder is a labouring man, into whose hands such specimens as those described, if brought from abroad, are unlikely to have passed for the purpose of designed mystificition. In regard to the CoromandeL gold fields, we learn that the General Government are making every exertion to complete fresh purchases from the natives, with good expectation of success.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1018, 31 March 1857, Page 3
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