ALLEGED GOLD DISCOVERIES.
In addition to the brief telegram referring to the discovery of a rich quartz reef at Wangapaka, the Nelson Colonist has gleaned that specimens, said to have come from that locality have been seen, and that these are described as being richer than anything before discoverd m New Zealand, the best specimens of the Caledonian mine not excepted. However, the locality of the supposed find is being kept a profound secret, and it is also supposed that Wangapeka is not the place where the discovery has been made. It has been thought apparently that the specimens were obtained much nearer Nelson than Wangapeka, and we learn that a party of 12 or 13 left Nelson on 25th Nov., merely taken a supply of biscuits, and that they each left by a different rout for a locality situate only a few miles to the northward of this, confident that the scene of the El dorado was m the direction referred to.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 593, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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163ALLEGED GOLD DISCOVERIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 593, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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