TEETULPA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7636, 8 January 1887, Page 3

TEETULPA.

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' ■■:■ '■'■ ■'■':' letter from a gold-seeker who left Napier .••r ■ " for Kimberley, but ultimately, found his ■• "way td Teetulpai 1 will be read with .".?.. -': ■ ■; ..Tihterest , :^TKe ;: railway .from Adelaide ■■-.'> :'■': brought me to within .16 miles of the '.-•„.- diggings, whence,, a 5s coach ride, -took -'.. " " me l t6 - the famous Brady's Gully, which •.-: .' with the .exeoptibn. of Gousling's Gully >.' )•'.. Contains the; only: payable gold yet dis- : - ": .'■'■'* : covered.',- 1 have been sinking " duffers" ;'. '.'-.. ever since I' came'' here, and "bo has every- '}■■'-' one else except those, who were first, at ■:_■'.■', the rush; There is af resh rush every '-,'. . '.other, day. .The sinking is shallow," so ' ; ;. -that the ground is pegged, off for miles ' ■ ' and"- riddled .with, holes,: but nearly all . • , have proved duffers. .Some of thepros- ! pectors- get. from ldwt/to half-an-ounce .•--'■ , to' the dish, on- their rush claims, but "-'.'■■' this is •supposed to 'be' '-'salt" in . the -■;■ : interests or th6se who want to.keep.afew ■• : tliousaud men on ,the ground— the. buai-, „'.,. "ness people. When we get the papers •: '■.-'. here and see the startling '' reports " we >>\ '■■ 'do not wondor that newcomers continually :".'•':.', .replace those leaving.? New Zealanders : -."'- are beginning' to ." roll up, thick," some ...;' with' wives and families. ■ Ibis is very 1 : ' ' , foolish, as South Australia is a^oor place, . . and work,. is not' to W had. I .would ■ •■' advise all New Zealanders, to stay^ at '-' ■"..• .Kbmei • Until recently we had no rain, • --, and had,.to use brackish water (paid for) ' '" fprom : tea; which causes much sickness, ■■■■ ■ "several / deaths 'haying occurred. The- ; weather' ia'fedrfully hot, on'd.when the "•'." '■;■--■ wind blows the pla,ce is in a dense cloud . -'-" , .bf:dnst.. The only favorable thing about. ■ ■ -'-■-' the field is that living is'cheap. . • .. , ■