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At, the month of the Fox River, twenty-five miles from Westport, wa* onoo the town of Brighton,' with 3000 inhabitants; near it the town of St..Kilda. They flourished between 1865 and 1870. " To-day," writes Will Lawsp n in " The Wonderful West Coast."- ---" there is no sign of Brighton or St.Kilda, except a little cemetery tlißt if overgrown with bnsh. The places whera the men dug for gold ar e still visible, and the beaches still show the copper sheen of gold-bearing sand. One-halt of Brighton is under the sea, which has encroached; and the other half is insfc grazing land to-day. There are many old mining towns on the West Coast such as Charleston and Kumara, wh e £
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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122PLACES WITH A PAST Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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