REPORTED NEW GOLDFIELD.
«. A West Coast Discovery[Pkb Pabbß Association.] DTJNEDIN, Fjcb. fc Donald Sutherland and party, who have been prospecting for pome time past on the West Coast, have applied to Mr Carew, the Warden for the Otago district, for a grant of a special claim as a reward under the Act for their discovery of payable gold. The claim they apply for is a mile m length and half a mile in width, and is situated about half-way between Martinis Bay and Milford Sound. The ground is near the sea and of terrace formation, while the specimens of gold found thereby them, and submitted to the Warden, are of a coarse nature and mixed with quart*. They state that they can earn from £& to £8 per week per man, and that there ia room in the vicinity for a couple of hundred miners. The Warden intimated that the applicants would have to supply written statements confirmatory of what they had said, and that the same would be forwarded to the authorities.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5846, 8 February 1887, Page 3
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172REPORTED NEW GOLDFIELD. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5846, 8 February 1887, Page 3
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