(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) AUCKLAND, November 16.
The Adelaide Register's special correspond dent telegraphs on Wednesday, 10th inst., as follows:—"Jhe men at Goslings Gully are getting results, but are keeping quiet. In the upper part of Brady's Gully Elliott and company got one nugget to-day over 7oz. They had previously obtained one from the same claim loz 17dwt. Stone, who has got a claim just above Elliott's, found to-day a nugget over 3oz. The men are in great spirits, and are working with energy and hope. The washing at Tonkins' Well is satisfactory on the whole, though many men found blanks. Major and Goldsmith, from dirt taken from Little Gully, next Brady's, got by washing, one nugget weighing loz Odwt 2grs and about an ounce o£ small gold. They complain that washdirt left at the well over night gets stolen. Miller and Fuller are obtaining'gold at the rate of 2dwts to the tub from six bags of djrt. Delby washed over 28dwt, and Black washed 24dwt to three bags. Men are working in two gullies south of Brady's, but no results are recorded. There has been a steady yield of small quantities of gold in the lower part of Brady's Gully, and also in the deep sinking on the high ground of the western bank. Three cakes of gold, weighing 2550z from 97 tons' of calcined pyrites, are the result of the last crushing at the new Alma mine, Wauka ringa."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 7722, 17 November 1886, Page 2
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