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Evening Star, Issue 3786, 13 April 1875, Page 2

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[From our own correspondent.)

Areowtowk, April 9. The correct amount of gold stolen from Fraser’s tail-race, at Bracken’s, is now ascertained. They estimated that forty or fifty ounces were in the race on the night of the robbery, but they recovered twenty ounces which the thieves had loft in the part not lifted ; so the actual loss is twenty-four ounces —not twelve ounces, as I telegraphed, which was the amount given by the police authorities to me as the sum stated. The robbery was skilfully carried out, and must have fully em- * ployed six or eight men the whole of the night, as » great deal of work was involved. The wash-dirt taken out of the sluice had been panned the paddock, and the sluice made to look as if it h&d not been touched, except a part which showed that thieves had been at work. It must have been done by the Chinese, as numbers ef them are fossicking the gully all round, and there are too few Europeans about the place to have carried out the affair so elaborately. The sluicing claim of Fraser’s is a good one, Gying L 8 per week per man, and they baa en running since Christmas. Strange to say, the party above them, Greeve’s, had washed up the day preceding the night of the robbery, but they had taken most of the gold out of their sluice, 80oz, so the thieves missed that patch. This claim is also a good one, often giving prospects of loz to the dish. Companies throughout the Province should take every precaution against such clever and accomplished thieves, as these robberies are often difficult to detect.

The Sons of Fortune workings are looking better, having broken into wash, though not aa jet gold-bearing, and the driving is becoming easier.

The delegates of the Shotover Company have decided to recommend either the winding-up of the company or to make a fresh issue of shares to bring Skipper’s Creek in and sluice the claim. Should they make a fresh issue it would be a good feature to offer to workmen paid-up shares in lieu of wages, to some extent, at any rate. The Miners’ Association intend to initiate a movement for raising a monument to the memory of the late Mr Wilson Gray.