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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 5

The following telegram from Coolgardid, dated April 13, .is published in the Argus The handsomest nugget yet found on the field is now on view at the West Australian Bank. It weighs 920z, and was found by Michael Leonard at the alluvial rash beyond Hannan's rush, known locally as the Deep Ground. Ib. is situated between Brookman's and Lake View mine. The ground is 12 feet deep in places. The slug was turned up at a depth of 6 feeb. A good deal of gold is being obtained. Between 600 and 1000 men are on the field. No big finds are reported from either the Kurnalpi or the White Feather rush, bub fair gold is being gob. The weather is intensely hot. Thunder-clouds are hanging about, but there is no rain. The soak at the Twenty-nine Mile has given out, and there is no water between Coolgardie and Siberia. Ono or two soaks are dry between here and Souohorn Cross. Ab Bayley's Reward mine nice gold is showing in the south drive at the 200-feeb level. Two heads of stamps are now kept running about twelve hours dally, producing about 500oz of gold a week. The water for the battery is being carted from the Government well. Three hundred men have been put on during the week sinking a dam on Lyons's lease, held by Bayley's Company. A larger reservoir on the Reward claim is finished, and one on No. 1 lease is approaching completion. A rich shoot of gold has been met with in the drive ab the 74-feeb level in Cosgrove's mine, in a rotten ironstone vein running through the reef. Ib is impossible to determine the size of the shoot. Several hundredweight of eery rich stone has been already raised and driving started from the 100-feet level in the old prospecting shaft. Mr. W. R. Wilson's mine, the Carnage, at the 45-Mile, a few miles west of Cashman's, is looking well. ' The reef has been struck in the shaft ab a depth .of 43 feet. The reef is the largest yet opened up in the district, and runs from six feet bo 25' feet) wide, averaging about 15 feet. Trial lots contain up to 21oz per ton, and the average value is 2oz to 3oz to the ton. Mr. R. Gibson, late of the Comet mine, Tasmania, has been appointed manager of the Carnage mine.