A New Goldfield.
[peb united PBESS association.] Phbistchttbch, This Day. Information was received to-day by Mr E. Wicks, of the \1 infng Excnange, that a- payable 'goldfield has been discovered in Canterbury by three prospoctors. The wash- dirt is sand, showing fine gold very plainly, and minute garnets" and rubies The locality will not be published till £'500 is guaranteed to the discoverers, who state that thie field is of considerable area, and the sinking not more than four feet. The discovery was made four-months ago, and the samples analysed by the Government analyst at Wellington show.ari average 'at Ybetween 26^ and 34 dw'ts to the ton.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 7, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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107A New Goldfield. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 7, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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