ANOTHER RICH GOLDFIELD. (BY TELEGRAPH.) Invercargill, July 17.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 3

ANOTHER RICH GOLDFIELD. (BY TELEGRAPH.) Invercargill, July 17.

News from Coal Island digging is generally of a favorable nature. Mr Simpson, Government Engineer, has viaitod the diggings, and authorised expenditure on tracks to various creeks, which will rnako the work on the island less arduous. Aa regards gold getting, most seem satisfied with their earnings. Braggs party took out 22ozs for a week's work, a nugget of lO^ozs boing among it. Tho most sensational item, howevor, comes from Crayfish Island, where two well known diggers (Cuilon and Clark), who have been working together for a quarter of a century, are reported to have found quarts on the beach, and have a ton of stone which is said to bo extremely rich, so much so that it is not advisable to give the estimated yield till more authentic information is to hand. Suffice it to say that a fow tons of auch stuff make old men comfortable for life. The trend of what appears to be tho reef is north and south towards the mainland, and it is to the lattor that diggers are looking for something groat if tracks are cut to get about. Two men are said to have come round by a steamer to secure a claim on Crayfish Island, which is only about half a mile across, Ono of tho prospectors came on board the steamer and showed samples of stone in which gold was plainly seen. The quaite collected by Cullen and Clark was over-grown with kelp. Bits of stone shown hero are thickly impregnated with gold,