AUSTRALIAN.
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(Received September 'J., 10 a.m.)
THE PEAKHILL GOLD RUSH,
Sydney, This day. Numbers of disrgers are flocking to Peaktiill daily, and already four thousand men ire on the field. The depth of tho sinking is I.'SO feet, in the prospector.-.' claim thero is about six feet of washdirt, but the width is unknown, though it is supposed to be
considerable. Seven ounces were picked upintbedirtin pieces nveraginsr a fownennvweiirhts to three ounces. It is estimated that the washdirt will yield six to eight ounces to the load. The country is pegged out for miles. A number of shafts will be bottomed during the week, when the value of the fi-.ld will be settled. THE BUILDING SOCIETY FRAUDS. Mhliiourne, This day. John Bellin, secretary of two building sn-ieties, ou two charges of embezzlement, has been sentenced to imprisonment for two years and a-half ou each count, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5943, 23 September 1890, Page 3
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