“Puff” on the Hikutaia Gold Find.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 41, 15 September 1887, Page 4

“Puff” on the Hikutaia Gold Find.

Snauso of the Thames experts’ report upon j the Hikutaia gold find “ Puff" **y* •“ ■ r A Porter, who’s a don st mining, says the ■ stone at Hikutaia showing in the face is fully . one-third bullion! 1 Vbi est ills re Porter 1 Does Porter vouch | for the fact 1 1 Decidedly ! That’s what be went to Hiku- , who’s going to vouch for Porter ? ; One third bullion's rather rich, isn't it? _ I Yes. if they get it all out, it should give 481b* to the ton ! Jumping Jehosophat ! What * that worth . Well, if it were good gold such as they get on the Coast it would be worth about <4O 000 1 But the Auckland gold'* poor stuff 1 It's half silver 1 Sever mind 1 I'm open to accept a ton or two 1 I'm poor myself, and poor stuff line that would just suit me ! Those would be hard to plesse whom it wouldn’t suit! It it’s only worth £2 an ounce, this stone should give £20,000 a ton 1 If the thing’s right, and there’s enough of it, there'll be a boom in the North, and the whole country will benefit! No doubt of it 1 But I’m still very dubious 1 It's too good to be true, by long chalks! You think there’s some dodgery in it ? I’m afraid so 1 The people up there are smashed so flat by the banks and loan companies coming down upon them, especially the land sharks and swampers, that thy're bound to make things jump somehow I They don’t stick at trifles those coveys, either, do they? . , . Oh no! They’d steal their own mother's back teeth, if they were hard put to it I They wouldn't think twice of making a goldfield, if there didn't happen to os one lying about there, in order to unload their specs ? . .... „ No, khat's what takes the shine off the thing in my opinion.