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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5477, 7 February 1885, Page 3

ADVERTISE IN THE " B A X N E It," AND YOU WILL GROW RICH. Tho next morning 30 or 40 of us puffed and perspired, and sworo up tho acolivitous track leading to tho Mulligatawny Mino. Ono by ono we wore lowered down tho winze, barking our knoos and chafing our hands during the process; but we all felt rewarded. There was the leader of beautiful blue and white stono, as "kindly" as ever Cornish minor eet eyes on this eido of the Lino, and right through the perpondicular strip of mottled quartz a broad band of golden stone could bo seen. We waited until sonic of tho reef had been blasted, heard Jack Maggott announco thot "400 pounds of as purty spicimints as iver ye saw" had resulted from the "breaking down," and then wo rushed off, each man anxious to get to Bungville first with the welcome news. On the strength of this breaking down, shares went up another pound, and Bungville went into a state of whisky and maudlin joy. That evoning our itinerant preacher held forth from the doorstep of the "Banner" office, and we were all mighty pleased. The appearance of a clerical personage on a goldfield is a sign of prosperity. Just as the love song of the cicada signals the approach of summer, or the croaking of tho bull frog prognosticates coming rain, so does the appearance of a black surtout and a white choker on a goldfield show that thero is a chance of a little ready money circulating. And our black-coated herald of prosperity did remarkably good business on behalf of the poor little heathen that evening. Why, shares went up half-a-crown as soon as it became known that there wag a pai-3on in Bungville, and wouldn't it have been right down mean, nut to say recklessly unthankful to Providence, if' Jack Maggott and other large holders of Mulligatawnies had not corao down handsome ? As for me, I may aay that I handed round the hat, and