GOLD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 3037, 5 June 1895, Page 2

GOLD.

Tmis metal has been found, it il said, in clotc proximity to Hawera, We are not surprised. The only thing that astonishes us is the abnormal number Of ounces to the ton, and the want of enter, prise of those who discovered the reef. Io Ooolgardie this 40 os. to the ton would have been wired to the world. Distinctly, we do not believe in tbe discovery. Tbe geological formation utterly forbids any hope of surface finds, and evidenoe of looal upheavals are scarce. In ordinary oases one of course assumes that where the igneous } rocks are foroed above tbe sedimentary, alluvial gold may bo found 1q the detritus, Also, one assumes that no gold finds its origin in organio or sedimentary rocks. A volcano as toroefnl as Egmont might change the eurfaoe of tbe country by a succession of upheavals, but could never oreate on the surface what does not exist underneath* We have absolutely no evidence in the detritus ooming from tbe mountain, borne from tbe mountain by the streams, of any specks of gold. Tbe formation forbids any hope of permanent gold. The white stone found in Kapuni or Hangatabua it most probably limestone in a oryatalised. form. Of course i| tbe disooverers say they have tbe stone #nd found it in tbis distriot we have nothing more to say. 1$ is only another freak of nature, and as a freak Bhould be distrusted,