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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 4

The Meath has occurred at Hill End, Bathurst, of William English, one of the oldest miners on the goldfield, at the ago of 83 years, Deceased had' a remarkable mining career. He came from Northumberland, England, landing in Sydney the night before the Dunbar was wrecked. . With several others he started cut for the Snowy Mountains, carrying’ Ins swag, and, after some prospecting, came pa to the Turou fiver, Wild hlacks were plentiful on the Macquarie at this time., English carried large amounts of gold from the Turon river to Sydney, and in the time of Gardiner and Hall, the bushrangers, who frequented tho roads, it was a risky undertaking, and nearly impossible to get away with any amount of gold. English bad chamois bags in the flaps of his saddle, and carried only a few ounces on njs person. He and David McArthur were the first men to bring a quartz-crushing plant on to the Turon. After making some money on the Turon river, Mr English went to Hawkiu’s Hill, and marked out a claim next to L. Byers, deceased, and B. O, Holterman, of North Sydney, who unearthed the famous nugget, measuring some feet square, and valued at £12,000. Mr English sold out of his claim for £I2OO just before the gold was got in thousands of ounces by Krohmann and party, who later procured from the same claim a ton of gold at one'crushing. , He next opened up a claim called the “Excelsior," where he got about 16oz to tie ton.