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Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 132, 2 December 1875, Page 2

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In George-street, Sydney, not a hundred yards from the corner of Bathurat-street r there was, says an exchange, considerable excitement recently, when one of the old telegraph poles standing in that locality was removed, and preparations were being made for placing in its stead a new iron post. At the same time that the men were at work three or four painters were engaged decorating a house near by, and when the former went to dinner the latter took several small stones and covered them with gold size; then they placed the stones aome distance beneath the surface of I the earth, where operations had been commenced. On resuming work, one of the men at the first Btroke of the pick, drew out the " glittering gems," and concluded as many more sensible men have concluded with less indication, that their fortune was made. They ran round the streets showing the specimens, and one of them was about leaving for the Lands Office, to Bee if he could take up the allotment. Two police came up and quite a crowd gathered, and inquiries were being made on every hand as to whether the auriferous indications were genuine. Great merriment was caused when the truth of the affair was discovered.