GOLD RUSH IN VICTORIA
TRAPPER FINDS BIG SLUG SCENE OF FORMER DISCOVERIES, FRANTIC SEEKERS OF FORTUNE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ree. 5.5 p.m. Melbourne, August 3. Two days ago Arthur Goltz picked up a slug of gold weighing about 20 ounces in a°forest reserve near Tarnagulla, a neighbourhood formerly famous for rich claims from which fortunes were won. Goltz had been trapping opossums, and while making his way home noticed the gold showing. A rush has set in. Motor-cars, lorries and horse-drawn vehicles, each loaded with men armed with picks and axes, are frantically making for the scene, which is 32 miles from Bendigo.’ Hundreds of acres of virgin ground' are available. , ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1930, Page 11
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