NO. 2 CLAIM, KURANUI REEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1210, 1 October 1867, Page 3

NO. 2 CLAIM, KURANUI REEF.

157 OUNCES OF GOLD.

In our issue of yesterday we briefly stated that tlio Midge, which, arrived on the previous night from the Thames, brought up 160 ounces of gold from Barry's Claim No. 2, Kuranui Beef. •We understand that yesterday Messrs. Hays and Grant, of the above claim, who came lip with the gold, lodged it with the Sank of New Zealand, where they opened an account, and that the Sank gave them credit for 157 oz. 6 dwts. of gold. Some 3oz was returned as not yet sufficiently cleaned, so we suppose the gold had been crushed in the Beraan without quicksilver, and had been simply washed out. : The party state; we are also informed, that they intend to ha7e another parcel of from 300 to 400 ounces ready by the end of a fortnight; and as they have some sixty tons of rich stone piled ready for crushing we can readily believe this statement. With such claims as No. 1 and No. 2, the question is not one, however, of getting rich stone, but of getting it crushed when the stone is knocked down. Keep a small Berdan going night and day, and allowing for accidents, these claims would do well if they could turn out 150 ounces of gold weekly.

We are not at all surprised to hear of the stone from Barry's claim turning out so well. A. gentleman a day' or two since showed us tlio result of the crushing of a specimen taken from the stone piled up Dy the claimholders. It weighed 15 dsvts., and when crushed yielded 3 dwrs. 14 grs. of gold. We were, however, unwilling to chronicle the result of-so small an experiment when we knew that the body of the stone was in process of crushing, and that the real value of the reef would be so soon made known.

Fortunate, however, as Barry and Company are, their good fortune over that of many ot hers, lies more; we believe, in the Berdan than in the quartz. There are, at least, a- dozen claims which only want the machinery for crushing to turn out equally well.