READ MEMORIAL CAIRN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 10

READ MEMORIAL CAIRN

. mrUNVJULLNG. --■ DISCOVISBiRR OF GABHIEL'S GULLY. ,*Bjr Tcl«?ta#h,-3?r*,!S Association) ■ - Dufifidfn, May 27, -A" memorial cairn w&s. unveiled at Lawrence to-day in memory of Gabriel Reach who, m.ISGI, mods■ the famous goiel-.i.Hscoywy iii what became known M Gabriel's Gully,. The limn j. Ailsn tr'tts present,■together with maivy old pkmeefs ■ and visitors f.rtim various parts. The cairii i$ rtbcrtH JSf.t. high, built of .the pecuJinr stones known as Bitift Spur jaspHroidn, . . The flavor erf .fcwonc* (Mr. J, RotierUsn) delivered 0-n eloquent address. The eninv.to sitkl,,was erected to" tlx-e ■raemary of die -first Rsiceessf.il jwospeeia(- in the .Do.rairtiorn, Hβ had known Mr. .Read, who was a .tficjdiijclily openhearted gentleman'.- <ila was a prartie'al minor,-always craving, for.&onwtliittg fresh, so, watts after !je had "struck it rich at. ibe GiiUy," h<) wrhfc attj, aiid "struck it rich" a* Waitafema, Before his,'advent, -.there was aisly a fiiieejS-svalk front the Gu-% to β-irncoftn, bvst, affcr .hii diseovG-rt, thcXe was -ji rush of njiiiors, with..the result that tho resources of ....the country Were opened up,. In 1864 there Were from 70,008 to 80,000. minora .doing well- in t-he Scut.h Island.- : Afamt three years ■lijgo'au attempt" had been ... made, to hriug ft remnant of .that, mighty hast together at Lawrence, aiid. about 300 had isssprtjiMfel. !fhe placo where tho.eairn

stood was the ■β-ntraiwft to tlie" Gftrtty. In tiie eroctien of the ©aim t-hoy were doing hanoiij not only., to. Mr.' Ilead, but- to the ijftn'who had foDovwd i.ti his wsko.. ' ... Hie Mayoress' '(Mrs. R«beftsqn) tbe-n ] Uin-eiled the cairll, <* tjio side of wWsh vras a plate beariag the foHowing inscription: "This cwtn was ereetcd to. the discijve.r.y of gold'fn : GaMbPs Gully i.ii 1861 byGriibrielltead," Ansthef. plate reads as 'follows: " : 6ver : 300 miMi'S.of 1861 Assembled her* in May, 1911, to celebrate the di?eovery of geld in Gabriel's QfiUjr. A srathfirini \\-aii diftei-wawls het4 iri tfei hallj some twciity d the, 1861 vecftrans. occa.pying fraht "seats," .' , The Bon. J.. Allen then, cong.tat«lat:ijtg these iissenibied. oft tins i)i'.etion of. the ciiitn. Nothing, he ( sai<l, was. more pleasing than thocaiearadc-rie displayed .by tha.dißgeri, It was a iesson to-t-to*(juii : iryineß of tlie ■piesf-JSK day; and the Mifrist-cr hoped ii : hai jlfers would c<Wi;e to be incorporated -iritji. o-ri-r iiJitsflßa'l lite' i&m of th<? ft'fcndlihess ', and fciaantss thai distinguished the diggei-s. For tlie throe years a.nd -Riiae liltiiiths. alter the ©tilly was discovered 1,65).<5670;5". of geW ; pa'ssed -fhr-oilgli the Ou'Stottis at DuneoKri, -. swd 63,-9?0oz. .throufth ports., -TJmlijaMß «*rq Bot.ft.ffiefal,.,teit a local -resideift had )i.iforffted liitxi 'of-to f;aet, alrd his n.qy,gaye them , Mr. Alien coiiel«u.f!(T witha trlbwte to the men to. ivh«3.jji t'lio.development of the eciuutry ■was .due, "... • ■ -..-,.. Tlw yeterafls then sang ihd' old. dig"gfirs 5 soiifi .'MarchSg t« "6ibfiel's." .