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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 15 May 1906, Page 4

The Australian romancer is developing almost as fast as the Australian lyrist, and De Rougemont should be the progenitor of a numerous brood. A Kalgoorlie paper spins a yarn worthy to take rank among the longbow exhibitions of the world. On a certain Saturday night, the chronicler relates, the miners in a certain claim at the end of the 700 foot level, felt themselves suddenly drawn towards the rock face, to which they remained fixed by a mysterious adhesive power. It was only when they had divested themselves of every particle of metal about their persons that they found themselves free. Had the idea of this not occurred to the genius of the gang, they would have spent the rest of their lives as limpets. And then he proceeds to state that, by efforts almost superhuman, a huge chunk of the magnetic stone has been detached for chemical analysis. Stone of such power has never been heard of before. And yet we call mineral substances inanimate! No doubt the story is an exaggeration, the product of an inflamed imagination; but it is probably true that there are deposits of lode stone in that strange weird land of the West.