Keith With Gold Sluice.
Keith learned how to prospect as a young man, from a friend 30 years his senior. He's been looking for gold ever since and admits he's found enough to keep him interested, but not enough to make him rich. On this occasion, he'd arrived from another old gold mining town, Lyell, on the upper Buller Gorge. The sandflies had driven him out and so he was back to his favourite hunting ground at Goldsborough. He explained how his homemade gold sluice worked, and panned enough material to reveal a few flecks of gold. When I left him, he was headed for the river to begin his day's work in earnest.
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
