BIG NUGGETS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2288, 23 November 1889, Page 2

BIG NUGGETS

.... n . v The following li * Hat of tht> largtik anggeta on record :•— . A.D. 1502, found by a native woman In alluvial deposit of Rlres Halna, St.. Domingo, Hayti, 632.0Z lOdwt. 1502, found at L»d Hills, la Ltnart> shire, Scotland, 270z. * 1730, found at La Paz, ia,l7ttt abov» eea level, on the eastern alopa of th« Andes, In BoltvU, Uppai Peru, 6650z. 1766, found at Qrbed, la Cornwall, England, lDdwt. ,* ' • 1771, foq.Rc\ tvb Yeoorata, Mexloo, and now In the Royal Oiblnet ak Madrid,. UftoijtlOdwt S.^r. 1793, found by a negro at Ohooo, Noir 1 Granada, Booth Amerlo», and now In tbfr King of Spaln'n Cabinet, 364 0s lldwt. 1797, fouud at Oroghan Einohel^, County Wlcklow, Ireland, 25t0». 1821, found In Reiod's mine, In Oabavrai Oounty, North Q«Kulina, United Statei. 4Uozl6awt. 1826, found at Minsk, Ural Mountain*, RmiU, 325.: a sdwt Bgc. , l§2o, fouud at Auson Ooaoty, Noitbi ! Oatollna, United States, 14Soz 16dwt. 1832., f onnd at Minis Geries, Brazil on,, the piopetty of a (now defunct) English oompany there, 2420z. 1832, found at Oabarraa Oounty North.. Carolina, United Btato», 833uz 6dwt. 1842, found at Minsk, Ural Monntalna^ Buasla and oo,w m the Maaeum qI Mining Eng;inoßra, at) St Petersburg, HBoe 2dirt. , I^so, found at Oflraoa'i Creek Stsnlfflftua river, Oillfotuls^ and sent to tbe Bank of England,, 2190z, 1858, foaod at B»kery HIU, Btllewai, Yiotorie. and known as the " Welooma N«gget, A 22170z 16iwi, 1851, tho Meroo uugget, New Sou An. Wales, 1272cz; Auotraliala thus an "easy fi M t " oloselw presßod by nq othet oour.Wy, with RawlY eeoond, and America only tdlrd ; whU^a» regards a^gvegato geld yield it Is Australia, one, United States of Amerlo^fewo* R«»Bla, threa, and other oonnttle?, suob. as Aloilco, all behind In the ifcae. Theabove are all good examplea-of ".patobv 1 * and qgtj always p^ubje 6 old, 9 4