THE BIG NUGGET.

WEIGHT OF " THE HON. RODDY." J CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THE DISCOVERY. Tbleobaph.— Special to Thb Post.] GREYMOUTH, This Day. The nugget found at Ross is rather larger than an ordinary White Stone turnip, and has a little quartz adhering to it. Weighed on a grocer's scale it went 71b 2oz avoirdupois. The circumstances connected with the discovery are interesting. Twenty years ago a miner named Jack M'Carthy was engaged in mining a piece of land a few chains distant from the eastern boundary of the present Ross Flat Goldfields ? Ltd. One day, when attending to a tailrace, he overbalanced himself, and broke his npck. Since that time the ground had been shunned by all till a few months ago, when Sharp and Scott commenced operations. Work in virgin ground soon produced lucrative results, a few small nuggets being obtained. The big nugget itself was discovered some days ago — rumour has it, on" Tuesday last. Why this exceptionally valuable discovery was kept so quiet has not been made plainly evident, though a statement that there has been a large transaction in shares of adjoining claims bears especial significance. Mr. J. A. Murdock, Mayor of Kumara, has purchased the nugget. An immediate result of the discovery has been to cause all available land in the vicinity of the find to be pegged out, whilst shares in the Ross Flat Goldfields, Ltd., have hardened considerably. _ A private telegram received in Wellington on Saturday afternoon stated that the nugget weighed at the bank 990z 12,dwt 12gr.