The Wartoa Gold
■ ■■•■■ ' ••-■■■■:^J:fh:; J\ FUETHER PAUTICULAES, £PBB UNITKP PRESS ASSOCIATIOK.J "•'/■;■: . -'^Avokuxd, Sept ;l3. Respecting the recent find of gold at J. B. SmithV property at, three tona of stuff obtained from various holes sunk in the ground hare been tested at Mr GK jFraser's foundry Auokland. Complete tests were made by assay and by a practical test of pans, with the result that the value of the stuff was estimated at £2 14a per ton. average value of the bullion, as determined by the B&nk of New Zealand, ia £3 12s 6d. It ia stated that Mr Smith has been offered sgHjOOOVfor 10^)0 Nacres, the\habf ol his estate, and 1000 paid-up shares in a company which is to be floated at Ghrjstchuroh to work the find> Tne gold found is ; free, and the wash-dirt consists of a mixture of sand and 4 kind of pipelay, and ia of considerable depth, underlying a large. area, lnot only on Mr ' Smith's but on other pro» prietiea in. !&$ i*iako djitaaoti 1 ;
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 37, 15 September 1887, Page 2
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169The Wartoa Gold Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 37, 15 September 1887, Page 2
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