North Otago Times 07 Jun 1879

Mr Geo. Knight, manager of the Lowry Bay property, came into town yesterday with some excellent specimens of gold, both alluvial and quartz, which he had found on the property in the country, somewhere back from Lowry Bay and Pencarrow Head. Mr Knight, who is an experienced gold miner, states that the locality where he found these specimens, the situation of which he declines at present to disclose, bears every appearance of being auriferous and is strikingly similar to the formation of other districts which have proved to be auriferous, such as Collingwood. It is understood that the place is somewhere near the Wainuiomata Valley, between the Hutt and the Wairarapa Ranges. Mr Knight has a party of miners out prospecting the neighbourhood and is sanguine of favourable results.