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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 913, 1 February 1868, Page 2

The Thames Gtoldfield. — Perhaps the most satisfactory intelligence yet received from the Thames is the opening of an alluvial diggings at the Tapu Creek. The successful result of the rush which has lately set in to that place is now put beyond a doubt by the appearance in the market of parcels of alluvial gold. Yesterday we were shown a fine sample of alluvial gold, weighing 330z5., which had been purchased from miners arriving in Shortland from Tapu. We were also shown another sample, of some 120z., brought from the same locality, mostly fine gold. The gold is at present chiefly obtained from gullies leading into the Tapu Creek. The sinking varies from one to seven feet, and in some places the whole of the ground will pay for washing. The bottom is a rotten slate. It is said that a large extent of likely-looking alluvial country extends from Tapu to Cabbage Bay, containing large gullies and alluvial flats. Towards Waikowau the gold is of a shotty nature, and if, as we were told, two men in two hours obtained three and-a-half ounces of such gold, there can bo no doubt as to the productiveness of the field. The gold, too, is worth considerably more Ijhant'.rthjati jobtained from the Eaueranga reef. . (^iiartz, too, , is found J.n abundance \ ib* /t;H| c 'i&ri; gdsV, ' $n$ " 'Mr. ' i£c Jsaac^ and P a 'f:^MK- $«Jffi e ' Jt%?%fi« Btajuqk ,a yery, , fffMURS \pfmtno\ Wrji?nfor>mantr ; add> i | at l .^pu F; % ( c J oji i sidfir < able.[oaniDii'nJ;)o£i gojdi^.in^ft hfiLn%;!.oir;injdi'KidujilsrioiA'tii| 4h^j^iai3alsa,-fi€ld,!.a(Spl!endid'iead-has(be^hl struck in St. Lawrence claintj igeri^rally 11 iknown a^lthelTOJiell?cf6gf?— N. Z, JSTeraWf,