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The Zealandia, with the March British mails left San Francisco for Auckland on the 11th inst. three days late. The City of Sydney, with March homeward mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 18th inst.. two days before time.
A telegram has been received in Dunedin to the effect that Shepherd, who absconded from Timaru, did not go through to San Francisco, but left the vessel at Honolulu, where, no doubt, he regards himself safe fram danger of arrest.
In the West Coast Times of April 20 there appeared a lengthy report on the new rush by “Practical Miner.” He enumerates or names 54 claims on which shafts have been or are being sunk. Of these 48 are on the west side, and seven on the east side of the road to Ross. Twenty-seven have not yet struck the washdirt. Only one is pronounced a “ duffer” ; six are not payable at present, but the parties are driving and twenty are on payable gold. The extent of ground pegged out is about one mile and a half from east to west, and about halt a mile at the widest from north to south. The writer states that in a month the locality will be thoroughly tested. The report seems very fair and not at all enthusiastic, and is, from a practical miner, as indeed its composition and language indicate.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1045, 28 April 1882, Page 3
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231INTERPROVINCIAL Dunstan Times, Issue 1045, 28 April 1882, Page 3
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