AUSTRALIAN DIGGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1745, 20 January 1888, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN DIGGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

P.- st-r Brir k^r, a iniaslonary. writes from Oiyiml ingao to Berlin that five gold r'iggofs had arrived there from Australia m August irt search of gold. Two were nods of an Englishman who, thirty-three years ago, found gold at the old copper •ninea at Otyimbingu". They had b<en oaving money for a long time m order to prosecute the eeircb further, and they soon found the scene of the former discovery. The mission my says the diggers are astonished at the richness of the rein " The lamps of gold," he sbys, " may he seen with the naked eye, I>r Goring the Imperial Commissioner, believes that millions of marks' worth are lying at this one place. The epot is below Ahnawood, eight hours' hence, m a sort of island m the bed of the Tsoakoub. There is moro water than is desired, for the diggers scent alluvial gold m the bed of the stream. According to the evidence of these experienced men the place is richer than any m Australia. And now the gold hunt is going to begin." '\ In the view of this gentleman it will only be possible to work the veins by means of dynamite and stamping-machines, so that companies will be required having at command considerable capital. The Elberfeld Mission reports that gold has also been found m four plaoes between thirty aud forty English miles below Otyimbingue.