NEW GUINEA GOLD
— GREAT NEWS FROM ETHE CREEK. 80ozs. OUT OF SMALL HOLE! ALLURING STORIES. (Special to the Times ) AUCKLAND, Oct, 12. Sydney newspapers to hand to-day contain glowing accounts of the gold find at Edie Creek in New Guinea. Gold worth £40,000, about 16.0000 z. from tlie new field, reached Sydney recently. Five thousand ounces came from one syndicate alone. Although it was the biggest shipment, as yet, from New Guinea, tho consignment was only a small portion of the gold won on the Edie" Creek adjoining fields, for it was learned that prospectors were holding back the larger part of their gold owing to tho difficulties of transportation. Writing to a friend, a man who is on the field says: “The show is beyond all question tlie richest tiling we have discovered in New Guinea. Prospectors took more than SOoz out of a hole smaller than a post hole,” the letter continues, “and it showed no signs of finishing. I guess that, where they have been working four boxes, they have been making not far short of ICOOoz a day. Unfortunately my ground is not anything like that, but such as it is it satisfies me. Up to the present this year I have won about; 1300-oz. Rumor has it that men are rushing here from all quarters of the globe.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10494, 13 October 1926, Page 5
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223NEW GUINEA GOLD Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10494, 13 October 1926, Page 5
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