A SENSATIONAL FIND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 984, 25 February 1881, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL FIND.

Suppose I were to say that a I.OOOoz nugget hail been found oh the Margaret, 1 would lie mb’bbfetl i'difti&dlately. I heard lately that such was the case, so I went to the spot to ascertain the particulars. Of course, as usual, they were, exaggerated, but the Hud was an extraordinary one for all that. It was not a nugget but a specimen, and although the yield was not I.OOOoz, it exceeded 700 >z—riot a bail find for one naan. The specimen was a quartz boulder, known to nearly everyone on the creek I knew it nljself well, and had obeti sat down to enjoy a smoke. It was in the very centre of the thoroughfare only 50 yards from the police fcaulp, and a party of four Germans camped alongside of it. It might be described as a large iiugget completely coated in quartz, and a Chinaman one dry passing broke the skin with bis pick, and the gold kernel was discovered. The stone was b’oken up, and three bags of specimens and gravel were taken to the nearest water. The police and a number of Europeans attended to see the washing, ft was supposed the Europeans would make a scramble for the treasure, blit they were law-abiding, however templing the circumstance,' and the Mongolians took the gold with them—about 700 z for au hour’s woik. If I stopped at this the story might be sensational, but there was a rush to the place, and 300 men worked for a week without getting a speck of gold within 300 yardd where the boulder lay. It bad been s hug" etone rolled from a long distance, but took a different direction from the usual nuggets.—Port Darwin correspondent of the Queenslander.