Teetulpa Goldfield.
Melbourne papers dated November 24 report that excellent results continue from Brady’s and Ooslin’s Gullies at Teetulpa. On Friday a pocket of gold, weighing 17oz, was found at the south end of Brady's Gully, and on Saturday a soz nugget was taken from a claim on the noith oast aide of the same gully. The special correspondent of the Adelaide Express telegraphed on Monday I heard ot three good finds of gold, wuich were weighed in one of the stores on .Saturday evening. A party of three diggers went into the store and had 13oz of gold weighed. The whole of this was found in Brady’s Gully, between noon on Friday and noon on Saturday. The same evening a party of two weighed l !oz, secured in Goslin’s Gully. During the past week another patty unearthed 7oz, which was taken from Brady’s Gully. The whole of this gold was weighed by my informant. There is also a likelihood of Strawbridge Gully proving payable, as will be seen by the following message, received from the assistant warden : —“ In Brady’s and Gosliu's Gully on Saturday settling disputes. 1 saw good results iu Brady’s Gully south, and a ifidwt nugget was found just below the prospector’s claim. The finder of the 14oz nugget obtained an additional one of|l2dwt 13gr from two buckets of dirt on Saturday. No exceptional results are recorded from 'looker's well or the gullies. It is reported by unquestionable authority that one man found 20oz, and another IBoz in Strawbridge’s Gully in high ground, away from tbe water courses cn the north side. In Brady's aud Goslin's Gullies finds of gold continue to be payable, and in some instances handsome. A man picked over a load of wash dirt from the latter, aud got 6oz of gold. Others are doing lairly well, though there ate many men who are getting nothing at all. In Goslin’s Gully on Saturday two men picked 3oz of coarse gold from the wasbdirt, aud secured 4oz out of three bags ot stuff. Warden Clindening telegraphed on Friday that in Goslin’s Gully one man got 220z in ten days, and another man 240z in 11 days. In Brady’s Gully one man got 19oz 19dwt 4gr, including one nugget of 14oz 16dwt. On Friday the washing was exceedingly good. A digger unearthed a pocket of gold in Brady's Gully on Saturday morning, Item which 20oz of gold was obtained. The largest nugget of the deposit reached 14oz IGdwt Ihgc. The diggers are in great spirits, and the field is extending daily. I
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2000, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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427Teetulpa Goldfield. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2000, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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