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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13096, 3 May 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)

We are informed that the gold-bear-ing reef, recently discovered in the Owen district, has been opened out for a considerable distance, and showy a width of 57 feet in some places, while the average width is over forty feet. The reef has been traced for some distance .and the prospects arc considered excellent.

We learn that at tho Royal Agricultural Show, at Sydney, Mr. F. W. Fairey, of Nelson, won second prizes with the bullocks and cow he took from New Zealand. The competition was extremely keen, and Mr. Fairey has done well*to carry off honours.

At a land sale conducted at Motueka yesterday by Messrs J. H. Baukin and Co., on behalf of the trustees of the late. Miss Fearon, high prices were realised. A quarter aero section and I house in High street was sold for "£3OO and a quarter acre in th© dime street brought £85. A section at the corner !of Fearon and High streets was sold for £]20, nnd two quarter acre sections in Fearon street fetched £145 and £120 respectively. A hundredacres of Whakarewa leasehold was sold for £590. Other properties were passed in at a few pounds short of the owners' reserves.