THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8065, 28 September 1887, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

THE WAITOA DEPOSITS.

[from our own correspondents.] Morrinsville, Tuesday. Payable waahdirt has been found on yet another estate in the Waitoa goldfield, namely, that of Mr. Arthur Gubbics. Two tests were made of staff taken from within sixteen yards of each other. One yielded nothing more than a trace, the other bullion to the value of over £2 to the ton. PROSPECTING FOR GOLD. Mr. T. W. Gudgeon writes :—Prospecting for gold in the North Island is just now in abeyance to all but a few sanguine miners, who with others are convinced that the goldfields are yet in their infanoy. But mines of wealth still lie beneath the surface, only requiring industry and judgment to obtain them. £ would suggest that this subject should be fully impressed on our future representatives—as a Government grant for this purpose may lead to a quick solution of our present difficulties. That there is gold more or less over the whole of New Zealand is an undoubted tack, and it will yet be found in payable quantities in parts as yet little dreamed of. In the year 1857 I was occnpying a bash farm some distance inland at the back of the Omata, in the Taranaki district, and having pitched on some high ground as a aite for my honse, had some difficulty in obtaining water, and I and my son set about linking a well on a small piece of tableland just below the whare. We had sunk about 30 feet, when in a bucket full of stuff just raised to thei surface we discovered a small nugget about the size of a nut. Gold had not been discovered in New Zealand at that time. Nevertheless, we examined the remainder of the debris drawn out ot the well, but failed to discover more. Now, many would argue that where that nugget was found there must be mofe in the immediate neighbourhood, and I again say it only requires judgment and porneverance to find the precious metal again. I met a man from the Thames about three weeks ago, and stopping to ioquire of him what ho was doing, received for answer, " Oh, I purchased one of the abandoned claims—Dixon's No. I—and I and my sods have been working it these four years, and have put by a good bit of money. We have still work there tor the nest ten years, and are now working on two payable rsefs." Now, there are hundreds more of these abandoned claims which would pay working parties well to prospect, and yet not, perhaps, give a large dividend to a company. If Mr. Otto's plan were carried out—namely, a cross tunnel, which would intercept all the principal reefs known at the back of the Waiotahi, the Thames field would soon revive again, as there i> no telling what such an undertaking might reveal.

Saxon.—The mine manager telegraphed yesterday : —" '2Olbs picked etona from rise No. 4 level."

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