THE REPORTED GOLD DISCOVERY IN WAIKATO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5877, 17 September 1880, Page 5

THE REPORTED GOLD DISCOVERY IN WAIKATO.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Thnrsday. THErainwhichhas aetin steadily this morning hns somewhatdamped theardourof many who were to have ridden out to Kauawharawhara to have a look for themselves at Goodwin's reef. Yesterday evening there was a report set about in Hamilton, that tho stone shown came really from Ohinemuri, brought by a Mr. Richard Mason, but Mason denied emphatically that the report was true, and some experts in Ohinemuri reefs say that the stone is not of the same description. One thing is very certain, it has been but recently broken off the reef wherever it came from, a3 tho edges are 3harp and the surface fresh A party is forming in Hamilton to have tbe country about Kauawharawhara properly tested, and a well-known West Coast and Thames prospector, Leahey, who was recently working in Hamilton, and had expressed great desire to prospect the very ranges this stone is said to come from, has been telegraphed for. The country suppose d to be auriferous commences from the western bank of the Waipa river between Ngaruawahia and Alexandra, and stretches away back formiles towards Raglan and the coast in alternating ranges, gullies, and small plains, the very stamp of a gold-bearing country.