THE RANGIRIRI GOLDFIELD.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3432, 16 July 1868, Page 3

THE RANGIRIRI GOLDFIELD.

JLwntß the first announcement of the discovery of auriferous quartz at Rangiriri, a feeling of something like" disappointment prevailed. The looahty was Ti«itfld by practical diggen and othew, woo stated that, so far as. they could see, no payable quartz had ' yet "been opened out On some of the olaims, howler,' me* were left workine, and ire are glad to nay that tb.ey have. »ow reaohed ttone about the richneis at which there °*A be no doubt. Indeed, we have heard it declared th%t Bangiriri wUI soon rival the Thames as a gold-p.rodu.oiog district. We give below $wq letters, whioh were received in town yesterday fromlUngiriri:- ML*eW.ik™. «« Sir.— We have stmok the leader, and first-rate stone, with a good show of gold. Captain Peroival Will give you all the particulars if he goe3 to town ; ha is taking op specimens with him. We will h*ve a, ton of good stone out this week. The stoae that we got out before wa« not half so go id as what we now are getting. The reef is very hard, and must be blasted to get on speedy. Goli is getting ooarse, and mor* of it. *^«To "

•• Rangiriri, July 11, 1868. "Sir— We have just arrived with six bags of ■tone. We got it us deep as we could get down. We have plenty of stone out, but we thought it better to send a ■ample of the best stone. We can Me ««ld in nearly all of it, and we think that it will yield well. I think that iome of the tailings ought to bs tried, in case of the gold escaping the maohrae. We haye abont eight feet of first-rate reef. It is fearfuliy hard, a.nd impossible to work it without Dowder. We will get down on the casing by the feme that the blasting tools arrive. There is some oth*r metal that we oannot ma.ke out. I send you a ■mall piece in this. If you examine the stone closely you will be a>le to se.e the oolour in nearly ill the stone. The deeper we get the better it w. When you see how this yields we would like to see the captain, go as to have his opinion how we are to go on. *<« To ," _____^__