RICH FIND OF GOLD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6085, 30 November 1886, Page 2

RICH FIND OF GOLD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

SIX POUNDS WEIGHT OF GOLD UNEAITHSP. A correspondent writing to the Clarenco < ond Richmond River Examiner says : — ' Considerable excitsment is aroused iv this usually quiet vills<» p » Solferino, by the report of a good find of gold on the Field of Mais, or Slaughteryard Creek. This new discovery of gold is about half a mila south of Lionavillo, on the loft hand bank of Slauqhteryard or Field of Mara creek, being maiden ground, and only 50 yards up tho side of a nice gradual spur from the creek. The yield gayeloz of free gold to the dish. Since tha report was given in to the repatrar, the prospector has sold 2oz 15dwfc of rosf gold (free), whioh he stated was from half a dish of the mullooky leader, which contains a good few quar.z specimens, which he did not crush. Upon inquiry from one of the prospectors, t> I day, he stated that they havo got altogether at a rou°h guess from five to aix pounds weight of gold out of their pot hole, or shaft, which is about 6ft deep by 3ft at the bottom, and 8!t at the 3ft level or half way. At tho bottom of the shaft the hard rock seeim to be just showing, and forming a footwall to a vein which, so far, shows very little quartz to tho eye till the stuff is washed, When the prospeotors were poking down below the level of the bottom to pierco or take up a little of the vein tho pick would show wiry gold sticking to it. The prospector havo got a goo/1 show, 5.3 ho states, all along the surface of their ground, and oven in trenches away from the vein got a good show of gold in a sticky sort of mullock they went through. So far the lines has been peoured for several olainis on the west, tmd on the east throe claims are taken up, which is abont all the Crown land available on tint s'de. It ia presumed to be a continuation of the Field of Mars roaf, but may not bo so. It having been secured as a new "vein, it will prevent all locking up of ground by any speculators, aa it will bo undor the Additional Goldmin'flg Lease Regulations of 1832, and the ground tint will be takon up wi 1 no doub} havt a very good trial.