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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1955, 10 April 1875, Page 2

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Last night w§ published an Extra eon* taining the above information, and the announcement took everybody by surprise. We were not aware till late that the proclamation had. been issued, but we were ; n possession of information that a find of some value had been made, and results of importance wire likely to follow. The discovery is due to on© - Neeve, who was employed at the Tair4|lw Saw Mills, and did a little prospecting occasionally. The discovery was reported to the Government in January fast, and the Government *«re asked to bring the land into the boundaries of - the goldfield. Dr Pollen and Sir Donald McLean were subsequently interviewed at Ohinemuri by Messrs Graham and Preece, who were associated with the prospector in bringing the matter under . the notice of the. Government, and requested to take action in the matter, but the former, to whom had been delegated the Governor's powers under the Goldfields Act, was disinclined to proclaim any other goldfield or extension'of the godfield, having in remembrance the disappointment .occasioned over the Whangamata affair. It was suggested that, some practical man should proceed to the scene of the discovery and report upon, what there was. This was acted upon, Mr John B. Beeche,. manager of the Crown Princess mine, being deputed to proceed to the scene of the prospectors'discovery. He saw the reef and brought away some forty pounds of stone for a trial. It contained a good show of loose gold in the mullock, and the 40 pounds of stone gave over five ounces of gold by ordinary battery treatment. The crushing of this stone caused considerable excitement at -the time, as it was supposed to have come from Ohinemuri, and Mr Beeche was not at liberty to state the locality from which it had been obtained, although when spoken to on the matter he at once said that it was not from Ohinemuri,

The discovery has been made on a piece of land not sold to the Government, but arrangements have been concluded for mining similar to those existing between the Government and the Native owners of this district, 'the extension comprises over 90,000 acres, and two Jjfmall blocks are still Native property. a thousand acres have been exempted from the. operation of the Goldmining Districts Acts as Native re■erves. The reef discovered, and which gives evidence of some richness is of good fixe, some three feet thick in one place, and runs nearly due north and ■outh. There are s number of small leaders running in at rUht angles. The prospectors have marked out a thirtyacre lease, and no doubt by this time several similar aireaa have been pegged, as it is known that persons left Shortland late last night' after the publication of our Extra. The following is the Proclamation yesterday relating to the new field :—

Proclamation enlarging the boundaries of the Hauraki gold mining district:— Whereas by the eighth section of the Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873, it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by proclamation in the General Government Gazette? to enlarge, contract, or otherwise alter the boundaries of gold mining districts under the said Act, and whereas it is among other things further enacted by the 187 th section of the said Act that every district constituted under the Gold Mining Districts Act, 1871. shall be deemed to be a district constituted under the low recited Act. And whereas under the said Gold Mining Districts Act, I>7l, a certain district within the province of Auckland has been proclaimed under that Act, and. designated by the name of the llhuraki Gold Mining district and the boundaries of such district have been enlarged under the authority of the said Act; and whereas it is expedient to enlarge the boundaries of the said district as at prcEeut constituted, now therefore I, George Augustus Constantino, Marquis.of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of and exercising every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do heretfy proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said Hauraki Gold Mining District •hall be. and the, same, are hereby enlarged, so as to include the lands mentioned and described in the schedule hereto. The . block of land known as Whenuakite, the block known at Purangi, the block known as Te Puta. the block known as Te Holio, the block known as Te Karo No 1. the block known as Te Karoo >o 2, the block known as Tairua, the block known as Kangahau, the.block known as Kapowai, the block known as Puketui, the block known as Wharekawa East No. 3, the block known as Wharekawa East No. 1, the block known ns Tautahanga, that portion of the block known as Taparahi. Koroneo, and Takatakaia, not before included within the Hauraki gold mining district, and that portion of the block known as Pakirarahl, not before included within the Hauraki Gold Mining District, as the "said blocks are more particularly described in the plans lodged in the Inspector of Survey's office at Auckland, excepting out of the said lands one thousand acres of native reserve* in the Tairua block. , Given under the hand of his Excellency the Most Hon. George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Ac., <fee., <fee., this eighth day of April, 1875. —-Daniel Pollen.—God save the Queen.' .