GOLD PROSPECTING.
Dr, Hector and Mr. Tiffen returned to Napier last Tuesday evening, after examining the eastern base of the Ruahine Range, between the Kereru district and the southern entrance of the Ruataniwha Plains. The chief object of their visit was to ascertain whether the fragments of rock washed down by the Waipawa and other large streams that rise in the mountains, afford any indication as to whether or not their geological formation is different from that of the Ngaruroro gorge. It was found that the drift in all the rivers, except the Makeretu, consists almost entirely of the common sandstones and slates. In the gravels of the Makeretu, however, there was a large admixture of well rolled pebbles of more highly metamorphosed rock. There is a probability that these pebbles are derived from an ancient drift deposit, that occupies the dividing terrace between the Makeretu and the' Manawatu rivers; so that they may not come from the mountains at all. We understand that Mr. Tiffen 13 about to. employ the Company's prospecting party to discover what is the truth with regard^ to this point, by prospecting the tributaries which the Manawatu receives from the . .mountains.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1118, 14 January 1870, Page 2
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196GOLD PROSPECTING. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1118, 14 January 1870, Page 2
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