ANOTHER RICH GOLDFIELD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 18 July 1890, Page 4

ANOTHER RICH GOLDFIELD.

(BT TELEGRAPH.) ISTERCAECILL, Joly 17. News from Coal Island digploe is generally of i> favorable nature. Mr Simpson, Government Engineer, baa visited the diggings, and authorised expenditure on tracks to various creeks, which will mike toe work on the Island less arduous. As regards gold getting, moat seem satisfied with their earnings. Brag?*' party took oat 22ozj for a week's work, a nnggei of 10$0S3 beta* among it. The moat seoaatlooal Item, however, or m?s from Crayfish Island, where two well-koown diggers (Oallen and dark), who have been worktag together for a quarter of a centory, an reported to have found quarts on the beach, and have a ton of atone which is ■aid to be extremely rich, so much so that It is not advisable to give tbo estimated yield till more aothootic information is to band. Suffice it to say that a few toes of such staff make old men comfortable for life. The trend of what appears to bo the reef Is north and aon:b towards the mainland, and It is to the latter that diggers an looking for something great if tracks ar» cot to get aboot. Two men are said to have comeronod by a steamer to secore a claim on Crayfish Island, which U only about half a mile acrosi. One of the prospectors came on board the steamsr and showed samples of atooe to. which gold was plainly seen. The qasriz collected by Caliea and Clark was overgrown with kelp. Bits of stone shown here aro thickly Impregnated with gold.