GOLD-FIELDS.
The gold-fields on tlie West Coast still yield large quantities of gold. A very large number of people liave migrated thitlier both from all parts of this Colony and from Australia. Jt is a very rough, inhospitable country, and appears to have quite as large a population as can well be maintained there.
There have been rumours almost every other „day of gold-fields having been found in various portions of this Province, as in the Thames district, the Waikato, and northward near the Bay of Islands. Gold has been undoubtedly obtained, but not yet in payable quantities. Parties are now out prospecting in various parts, and we hope they may be successful in discovering good payable gold-fields. These would scon put an end for ever to all native questions, by introducing a large European population and by causing the natives to think more of benefitting by trading with the Pakeha than by killing and eating him. The Maori as well as the European would be carried away by the gold-fever should ricli gold-fields be discovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 612, 28 October 1865, Page 4
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