AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
A NEW ZEALANDER AT KLONDIKE. This week's number of the Auckland Weekly News contains a capital series of pictures illustrating the experiences at Klondike of Mr. Win. Pacey, a New Zealander, who has returned from the Klondike with £7000, after an absence of about 14 months from the colony. The pictures given include the following:—Mr. Wm. Pacey's Gold Hill Mine; Mr. W. Pacey Shooting the White Horse Rapids; "Sliookum's Gulch" Claim, from which a ton of gold has already been taken; Grand Forks, junction of Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks View of Dawson City, taken at midnight by the light of the Arctic sun; and a portrait of Mr. Wm. Pacey. In addition to the Klondike views, the News contains a large number of pictures cf general interest, included among which the following may be. mentioned : —Large group of the employees of the New Zealand Dairy Association, taken at the annual reunion at Pukekohe; the tug Sterling on the slip at Helensville, showing damage done by recent gale; combined group of Pawnee and Dakota lacrosse teams; the Tauranga football representatives; Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony; the new Knox Church at Parnell, etc. The News is now on sale, and may be obtained of all runners and newsagents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11162, 7 September 1899, Page 5
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