THE WEST COAST SOUNDS.
[BT TELEGRAPH.] [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.I ' WELLINGTON, July 6. With a view to attracting greater attention to the necessity of opening 'tip the West Coast Sounds for tourists, traffic and mining purposes, Mr Thomas Mackenzie haa communicated with Meset s Burton Bros, and Mr Coxhead in order tc get a series of their photographic of places of interest there hung ,in the lobbies. The member for Ciuthe wants tracks from Miiford to the head ji Te Anau, from some of the fiords in X< Anau to George Sound, and from the northwest arm of Manapoun. He thinks thil the expenditure of a few hundred pound i on this district would cause aa influx 61 prospectors, as he is satisfied that mineral* abound there. Some time ago he found some copper six or seven miU-.s beyond tb,e Sutherland Falls, and .Professor Uirich, be having the same submitted to him, pronounced them to be the finest specimen! of copper that had been obtained in Ofcago ...•.. . • • , >
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7355, 6 July 1889, Page 5
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