ANOTHER BIG VICTORIAN GOLD RUSH?
MAN WHO IS MAKING £-100 A MONTH MELBOURNE, .June !>. Not lit) miles from Melbourne is a goldfield which, if it comes up to expectations, will be responsible for another great gold rush. At present the reef of gold at Bothnia Vale, 200 yards off Old Sydney road, and three miles from DonnyIrook, is yielding 70?.. of gold to the ton under primitive mining condir tinns. The owner of the lease, T. Kilroy, claims to be earning £4OO monthly, and he is employing only one man. lie thinks that there are hundreds of ounces of gold in the reef, and at times said that lie had obtained as milch as tooz. to the lon. As the result of the favorable indications, and the tact that-the director of geological survey, Mr P.araguanath, has said that the prospects pre very promising, a miniature rush to the field has set in already.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 9
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153ANOTHER BIG VICTORIAN GOLD RUSH? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 9
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