RICH GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page 21

RICH GOLDFIELDS.

FROM 100 TONS OF STONE.

After his meeting with the Uriwera natives, Mr Cadman returned to Auckland and Mr Gordon* Chief Inspector of Mines, and.Mr McKay, Government Geologist, set out with a party of the Natives to inspect the • place (some four days' -travel into their mountain fastnesses) iWJbgre--;: the auriferous deposits were alleged to exist. After . they had gone about half the distance (two days' journey) the Natives began to raise some difficulties on the ground that the place for which they were bound was tapu, and they did hot wish it to be desecrated. Messrs Gordon and McKay therefore decided to return, and did so after making an arrangement with the chief to send out a sample parcel of the alleged gold-bearing stone to Whakatane, whence. the Government will either forward it to the Thames or to Wellington for treatment and analysis. Mr Cadman thinks the reports as to gold in the Uriwera country are greatly exaggerated. At Rotorua he was shown by a gentleman recently returned from Coolgardie some rich gold specimens from that place, but he considers that far richer finds have been made at Coromandel than any he'has heard of at Coolgardie. Within the last year .£20,000 worth of, gold has been obtained from 100 tons of stuff in the old Union Beach ground at Coromandel. That is at the rate of .£2OO to the torn And yet the Press Association agents at Auckland have never thought the matter worth a telegram. Verily the people up North are singularly modest.