GOLD DISCOVERY IN THE KING COUNTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7002, 26 April 1884, Page 5

GOLD DISCOVERY IN THE KING COUNTRY.

[from oub own cobbbspondent.] Alexandra, Friday. Some little time ago a fine sample of alluvial gold, .about 4Jczs. altogether, shotty gold and oxidised, so as to present quite a red colour, was shown to and handled by several European settlera in Waikato. This gold was said at the time to have been found about fifteen miles from here, but it was expressly stipulated that no public notice should ' b'e ma'de 'of the discovery until after the departure of Tawhiao for Europe, as it was known that his influence would be used to suppress the working of any goldfield on native land. Amongst those who saw and handled the gold was a well known and perfeptly reliable Waikato settler of practical digging experience in Australia, who informed your correspondent that there could be no mistake in the alluvial character of the gold, and who gave the names of the half-caste finders of it. There may probably, however, be some mistake as to the distance from this place, 15 miles, at which it was- said to have been found, the appearance of the country so near not being J such as to favour the finding of alluvial gold. At double the distance, however, the head waters of the Tuhua River are reached, and in all probability this will be found to bo the locality. Tawhiao is now on the ocean wave, but nothing further has transpired as to this interesting disoovery.