. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. PKOSPECTING FOR GOLD. of the bay on which Grahamstown is built. For this reason Grahams-town, which takes its name from Robert Graham, its founder, has amore permanent and substantial appearance than the ordinary townin a newly opened mining country. It lies along the shore of thebay, and the numerous reduction-works, founderies, and similar estab
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. PKOSPECTING FOR GOLD. of the bay on which Grahamstown is built. For this reason Grahams-town, which takes its name from Robert Graham, its founder, has amore permanent and substantial appearance than the ordinary townin a newly opened mining country. It lies along the shore of thebay, and the numerous reduction-works, founderies, and similar estab-lishments were suggestive of a manufacturing centre rather than amining one only a few years old. 214 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. Doctor Bronson had a letter of introduction to a gentleman inter-ested in one of the largest mines, and the trio of travellers were at oncemade welcome. Clad in appropriate costumes, they were taken into themine, where they Avalked a long distance through a tunnel, and werethen conducted through a perfect maze of shafts and levels, where the. STAMP-MILL AT GRAHAMSTOWN. workmen were busily occupied in removing the auriferous rock, whichwas carried directly to the reduction-works, where it was crushed andthe precious metal extracted. The gold contains a large amount—thirty per cent.—of silver, and consequently has an appearance of pal-lor when turned out from the retorts. As the work of gold-mininghas been described elsewhere in the wanderings of the boy travellers,it is hardly necessary to give it here, the processes of mining and reduc-tion being practically the same all over the world. Frank and Fred obtained the following information relative to gold-mining in I^Tew Zealand, and especially in the region now under con-sideration : Gold-mining in ISTew Zealand properly dates from 1861, when goldwas discovered by Mr. Gabriel Eead at Tuapeka, in the province ofOtago. The existence of the precious metal was known nine or ten GOLD-MINING IN N
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