TAIRUA GOLDFIELD.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2180, 23 October 1875, Page 3

TAIRUA GOLDFIELD.

(FBOII OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

vNmsvxLiß, Friday. .. Thebe were rumours abroad' sihceearly morning that an important find of gold bad taken place yesterday evening, but the most persistent enquiries for'many* hours .failed, .'to throw light upon ' the' locality. f .'However, On visiting a'certain mine, : adjacent to where the find oc-> curred, one of the men -employed during the conversation seemed to have changed his mind within the last few days-as to the valuelof the Triangle ground! Hitherto it was ; always, a little gold to be got by the dish, but this morning it was "no good whatever." This appeared very strange, as the family were interested in that mine, and this, in conjunction with the manager's 'Son going off to town, led me to the conclusion that the Triangle Company.was.the oue which bad got the gold. Calling upon Messrs Neves and Dakin, we hastened off, armed with pick and dish, and on being seen to wend our way to the drive a person, who knew nothing' a couple of hours before considerately informed us that it was the Triangle where the gold had been discovered. On entering the company's drive we made our way to the leader that the manager was at work upon when-1 last visited him. Here we could see that some one had been picking away some dirt, and following suit, we gathered about half a dish, which was; panned off, jwd most.unexpectedly at the bottom there was a fine show of very coarse gold indeed, estimated to weigh about fdwt, The gold was so different in colour, and coarse, like globules, that at first we could scarcely credit that- it was the precious metal, but this was soon .dispelled. Seeing such a fine prospect it was natural to conclude that gold, should be seen in the stone, and almost the very first piece examined showed gold, while several other stones were afterwards seen. The mine having no one in charge, we were content with a single trial. The messenger. I am informed, took some pieces of golden stone away to town, the quality of which I cannot speak of, not having seen them. Those we saw contained a. dab of coarse gold, not like Thames specimens, but what' might bo termed picked stone. It is, however, the prospect we obtained from the rubble or small stuff, which is highly gratifying, Work will no doubt be continued next week, whon I hope to get prospects equal to those of to-day, and 3ee more of; the stone than I was able to do to-day in consequence of the manager's absence. The leader is in very good working ground, and about 1 inches wide, a real quartz vein, and its point of intersection is, as near as I can ascertain, the centre of the ground, a little if anything to the west.' The course is about north and south, with a tendency of a point or two to the east,

There is no change to report from the Prospectors'. Everything appears about the the mine, At the battery there will be no. clean up this Saturday, and I am therefore unable to say when. The box appears to be well charged with amalgam, as it is beginning to throw it-on the plates, and for the last day or two these latter have been yielding a nice little lot of good thick amalgam.