OHINEMURI.
Gbod News #6hi tHe Upper Country. (from a correspondent.) Mackaytown, This day. They have on DanLTeafiy s Imagine biggest reefs and best prospects I have seen. In Leahy's claim they have cut leaders and reefs from five inches to twelve feet in thickness, and a prospect I saw washed out would surprise you. The journey is comparatively easy now, the tract,laid \ off bj. Mr McCarthy, surveyor, being a go,pd one, and taking you right on to Leahy's claim. ; At Fern Flat Hatch, King and party are sluicing the creek. . They .are, getting gold which they believe will pay. I send you small parcel gold, got by them in two days,<which has been entrusted to me to get arsayed. I shall leave it .with you for a day or two, as the first parcel of gold sent down as far as my personal knowledge goes. . „ ,' r Since I was last at ■ the Basin a party oif claimholderrhave crushed a parcel of stone with splendid results! Mr Nolan is said to be on^good, gold. - ":, There was a report, of a rush to Waihi side-of the ranges last night,, but I cannot give particulars. *' .'>• . [The parcel of alluriai^gold has been received at our office, andmaiy be seen tomorrow by all those interested. It is.a pretty sample.] t '!;' >c
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 16 April 1875, Page 2
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