ALLEGED GOLD DISCOVERT NEAR WELLINGTON.
[bt TELEGRAPH, PKE.3S ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. Me. G. Knight, the manager of the Lowry Bay property, came into town yesterday irith some excellent specimens of gold, both alluvial and in quartz, which he bad found on prospecting in the country somewhere back from Lowry Bay and Pencarrow Heads. Mr. Knight, who is an experienced gold miner, states that the locality where he found these specimens—the present situation he declines at present to disclose—bears every appearance of being auriferous, and is strikingly similar to the formation of other districts -which, have been proved to be auriferous, such as Collingwood. It is understood that the place ia situated somewhere near the Wainui-o Mata Valley, between the Hutt and Wairapapa Ranges. Mr. Knight has a party of miners now out prospecting the neighbourhood, and is sanguine of favourable results.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5478, 7 June 1879, Page 5
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