THE REPORTED KAIPARA AND BANGARIRI GOLD-FIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1443, 3 July 1868, Page 4

THE REPORTED KAIPARA AND BANGARIRI GOLD-FIELDS.

Me. Allwbight, who returned to town from Kaipara on Wednesday evening, ag we stated in our issue of yesterday, has brought with him several pounds weight of stone, taken by himself from the Tokatoka Reef. There is no gold visible m the stone;- and as Mr. Smith the assayer of the New Zealand Bank, is now at the Thames, it may be a day or two before wo shail be able to announce whether the stone is auriferous or not. There were but fow men upon the ground and little or no work was going on The only stone to be seen in the district was the one leader from which Mr. Allwright took the pieces brought down by him, and this reef ox- leader was discovered in consequence of its being intersected in its course by a water-course or gully. Ihe stone contains much mundic We have received several pieces of stono from this reef from Mr. James, of the Jlaipara. T?rom lWariri many miners returned yesterday, complaining that though the appearance of the country was most likely-looking, and indeed very much resembled the Thames, they could obtam nothing but hard biscuits to eat. Coming i a \if 7 met a number oi Persons going up to the field.

_ We understand that Captain Steele- has beon in to record a claim for ten men at Lake- Wai-

kare. Wβ may as well state,' however, for public information that the : Snpeirintondent cannot, as many suppose, give protection. All that he can do is to : -record - appKrations; which Tecor&a, iwe suppose, will aflb-rd proof-of date-of occupation should disputes arise when the gold-field, is proclaimed. His Honor, we. are informed, has sent parties up to Bnngiriri to procure and forward to Auckland a ton of stone, that it may be tested. ■•■■■■ • • ■ ■ ■ : The remarks contained in the "Own Correspondent's" letter of the Cros? of yesterday, as to the " slowness of our paternal Government," are as ungenerous as they are untruthful and uncalled-for. There has been nothing , from first to last of official indolence or redtapeism uv his Honor's conduct with regard to the development of the Auckland gold-fields. He has lost no opportunity of developing the mineral resources of the province. '. ■ '■■•'■