A CAVE OF ALADDIN.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12878, 23 August 1910, Page 4

A CAVE OF ALADDIN.

People on the west coast (says a recent Adelaide message) are excited about the alleged discovery of gold in two distinct places at the top of Eyre's Peninsula. Detailed information is wanted to confirm the report, but a number of level-headed men, acquainted with some of the circumstances, are so thoroughly satisfied that they have decided to test the statomer.ix up to the hilt. The ; story is .that a half-caste native, named Joe Miller, who resided at the Daniel Bay Lutheran Mission Station, produced a nugget of gold, which lie said that he had found 400 miles in a northerly direction from Fowler's Bay. He explained that there were two shows of gold, and at one there was a boulder of . ground studded with gold so heavy/ that three natives could not lever it up with boomerangs. The • second "show" was two camps farther on, and was inside some caves. Hanging .in one cave were pendants of gold, like bunches of grapes. - Miller's_nuKget contains about 20oz of gold. At the earliest opportunity an expedition of ten white men, accompanied by Miller and three blacks, will set out for the scene of the alleged discovery. An Adelaide man, who has had long experience on the west' coast,. ddes : not attach much importance to the report, which he says has been thfe subject of a legend for thirty or forty years.