A tamer or more uninteresting election than that which took place in the Waimea it is (says the Nelson MaU ) impossible to conceive. Had a stranger ' D een set down in the neighborhood of Wafc.efield he might have gone the length of so- pp oS i n g that somebody's pig had died sudd en l y and unexpectedly, thereby creating t , little of that mild excitement which is c/ >U sed by such events in a country district, but, as for supposing that an election of » member of the Parliament which will hay c to deal with matters of such vast importar iC e to the welfare of the Colony was going on, such an idea could never have entered his head.
From November 20 to December 16, K875, 5176 tons of qquartz, a rtz were crushed at the Thames gold-fietf .,, w hich yielded 68630z5;.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 2316, 12 January 1876, Page 4
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