Suspicious Directors.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 246, 23 December 1887, Page 2

Suspicious Directors.

Per Press Association. N elson, Dec 22. There has been a falling off in the quantity of gold obtained from the Wakatu claim, Owen, and in consequence the directors have had tho stone as it came from the stamper boxes collected for five minutes at a time at intervals’ of some hours and then bagged and sent down. A portion'fro’m'this r w‘as' sent to .Sir Jus. Hector, who has sent the following telegram to Mr 0, Saxton, the Chairman of Directors : “ The antimony found in the first very hurried tests was partly erroneous owing to suspected presence of copper as nearly the whole of the base metal in pLo last samples tinted proven to be -bismuth’, which ‘occurred in the stone as a 'native alloy with gold, as we discovered last year. Your 3GO tons of stone, if the crushed sample was a failaverage, should have yielded 2-311 <r/ of gold, 03oz of silver, and 2330 z of bismqth, whereas you only got of gold 170 oz. 1 withdrawal! suspicions of tampering.”