GOLD AT TERAWHITI.

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

GOLD AT TERAWHITI.

There are now (says the Post) about 50 men on the ground, all busily at work. The different parties speak hopefully of their prospects. Nearly all stat that they are getting gold in small quantities, which they think will be sufficient to pay small wages. The average yield obtained is two grains to the dish, and a man can wash \ Out four dishes an bouy. Some of the men showed specimens of the gold which they had obtained. It is not exactly gold dust, being more like "sbotty" gold, some of the particles being about the size of pins-heads. The hope for better things which exists' is founded upon the discovery of the quartz reef. To work this reef would, of course, require capital and machinery- Mr. Brothers is trying to get up a company with the view of working the reef. In the tent of the Brothers party was shown a specimen alleged to have been taken from the reef,, in which the gold could be distinctly seen by the naked eye. Mr. Mclntyre brought to Wellington 601b%. weight of stwaß from the xeef in order to have it crushed. The men on the ground want the Government to give them some money help to re-form the old track leading from the main road to the creek, and a deputation recently waited upon the Minister of Mines, who said the Government would be willing to give £ for £ in case money was subscribed for the work. It is not improbable that the Government will proclaim the district a gold&eld, should ths men working on it ] &C¥e&S& in Bnnai>ey. Afc present, the | working parties are spread over an area extending about 2£ miles up and down the creek. Whenever a fresh party arrives they mark out a claim and set to work at once. The scene is very picturesque — the creek with busy workers along its banks, the queer-lookirig whares and cooking t places, and the background of bush and hill, all make up a pretty picture. All tbe men on the ground are in good health, and, like " Mark Tapley," seem determined to be "jolly" under all circumstances.