DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN THE PELORUS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 171, 22 April 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN THE PELORUS.

Examiner Office, April 12. Last evening, Mr. Harris, from the Pelorus, arrived in town with nineteen ounces of gold, the result of the labors of a party of four men for two days and a half in the Wakamarina river, about six miles above the junction of that stream with the Pelorus. The particulars of this important discovery are as follows : —On Monday, the 4th instant, Mr. Wilson, of the Pelorus Valley Accommodation House, Mr. Harris, who we believe is a schoolmaster, and two young men named Rutland, living in the Pelorus, made a journey up the Wakamarina to look at the land, and see what inducement it offered to purchasers. While out for this object, one of the party (we believe Wilson) proposed that they should prospect for gold. In the first instance they were, not successful in their search, but at length they found the color, and afterwards obtained gold in what appeared a paying quantity, namely, three pennyweights in six dishes of stuff. On this they returned home and constructed a rough “tom,” which they carried to the spot on Thursday morning last, and commenced washing at two o’clock the same afternoon, and by Saturday evening they had obtained nineteen ounces. This gold was brought into Nelson yesterday, by Harris, and was purchased this morning by the Union Bank of Australia. The gold is all scaly, and appears of good quality. It was obtained from the bar of the Wakamarina river.