TAKAKA VALLEY.
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Wet, wet, wet, seems the cry from all our Diggings : in this district the diggers have been materially retarded by it j yet they stick to their claims, and a large party are now cutting a race, 600 feet long, for the purpose of turning the river at Cann's Point.
Skeet's party Lave been tolerably successful, but the diggings seem to be hardly workable with profit until dry weather shall arrive, or until the diggers are enabled to rig up some Californian pumps, to keep their claims free from water.
Many Maori women are working here, and the ladies seem to be tolerably fortunate in this new labour. There are now three stores up here ; so that visitors will at least be enabled to comfort tho inner man when they arrive.
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 9 December 1857, Page 3
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136TAKAKA VALLEY. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 9 December 1857, Page 3
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