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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 130, 4 August 1866, Page 2

The Pleasant Creek Advertiser says : — The immense heaps of quartz tailings, and large dams filled with the same debris, may or may not some day be of more importance than is attached to them now. At Pleasant Creek the quantity now is immeuse, and it is being increased at the rato of 1000 tons per week. An invention has been talked of lately by which the particles of gold may be extracted profitably from theso tailings. Should this be true, there are few places where such a wide field is open to the inventors as at Pleasaut Creek ; nor is thero auy place where such a steady yield of gold has been maintained for a number of years. A return, showing the number of nominees gent for from the United Kingdom, by persons resident in Victoria, under the immigration regulations, from the Ist of Jauuary last to the 27th of May, is published in the Victorian Gazette. The total number is 1923, of whom 854 were males, ancl 1069 females ; 482 were from England, 162 from Scotland, and 1279 from Ireland.