As lute as hist year we also find men again at the "gold," up the Waiho river oace more, and we at once concluded

that they must strike upon a payable I field, for the prospects were better than ' those obtained m 1865 m the same locality. And now the year 1869 sees us again aroused about gold, but on this occasion it is an extensive quartz country, as well as an alluvial field, that has been discovered. Of the present discovery we know little beyond what the prospectors themselves tell us m their letter, which we publish m another column. Like most of the other parties who have found small quantities of gold m the district, they are sanguine that the field they have discovered will turn out a payable one, and will, moreover, be the salvation of the district. We are assured by the ern plover of the pros pectors that the statements they make are not only thoroughly reliable, but that one of them is a man who knows iiud understands, from long experience, the business of a gold miner. He has a good knowledge of the value of quartz reefs, and expresses a most firm belief m the value of those just discovered. The exact locality of the discovery is the gorge which feeds the Opuha river, the northern branch of the Opihi, and the boundary of the run of Mr Haiue, near Burkes P;iss. For some distance up the gorge the men found gold, and the nearer the}' approached the quartz reefs the coarser the gold became ; but they had no means of testing the veins of quartz, five and six feet thick, which runs through the slate, of which the country m the immediate locality is composed. They were unable to carry on their prospecting on account of the winter setting m, and we shall now have to wait for three or four months before we can learn whether the dis covery really is of that nature which the prospectors beiieve it to be. In the meantime it would be prudent for us to consider whether we cannot do something to set at rest the question of the existence of payable goliltields m the Tiinuru district. 