THE NEW GOLDFIELD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 59, 3 November 1880, Page 3

THE NEW GOLDFIELD.

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GrahaMBTOWN, Last night.' .Warden £enrick returned last evening irom Te Aroha. He says his opinion is that gold bearing stone will be discovered, but there is nothing yet to justify a rush. New miners' rights will be issued previous to the declaration of the opening of the field, the date of which will be notified. At a meeting ot miners, the following resolutions were carried: — (1) That the warden be requested to protect the men's ground for' fourteen days, to allow the natives and prospectors to find lode ; (2) That nothing should warrant the warden in granting a prospecting claim, should a payable reef, be found ; (8) That the waraen 1m requested to proclaim the district A goldfield, as loose specimens had been found 'sufficient to lead to the belief that reefe existed in the neighborhood. The correspondent of the Advertiser has been threatened with lynching for the statement that a reef had been found, shewing stone that yielded 200ozs. to the ton.. The stone broken out of the leader in the Prospeotors' Claim, at Te Aroha, and brought down by Mr. Warden Kenrick for the purpose of testing, was crushed in a single stamper at the Herald Battery on Wednesday (t legraphs the correspondent of the Auckland Star). Exactly ninety* I five pounds of quartz were reduced, and j the process from first to last was watched by Moore and McGnire, two miners from the district told off for that duty at the request of Mr. Kenrick, owing to their having no connection whatever with the olaims already pegged oft Mr. B. Wolf, manager of the battery, was also present nearly tße whole time.* and tendered evety assistant. The ombing was started at At early hour in the morning, and was finished in the evening. The retort was taken off the fire at.ten minutes to ten, in the presence of Moore and McGuire, and the Advertiser reporter,. and, on weighing the gold, it was found that exactly a pennyweight of pure metal "had been obtained. Tbi« is at the rate of loz. Bdwte. to the ton, wad the result is DDnsuWdd & very lattsfaotory one. 19 ot a. color of gold. was teen Jn the stone before p^ttiflei^tbrojigh the Hamper. I may' mention that* no My* 'was need in the process until the

stuff was put into the berdons. The object in thus departing from the general rule being to obtain the faireßt possible test of the quartz. A pigeongram to the Thames Star, from Te Arolia, on Saturday, says : — " Gold was gobhroza the reel of the Ptasaectors' claim io-clay. Te Aroha gold assay — <*old, 6-910 ; silver, 0-208 ; base metals, 0-101. Value per ounce, £2 165. lid."