THE KUMARA RUSH.
Mr Thomson, the Chief Surveyor of the Colony, has just returned from Hokitika overland. Having passed through the Kuinara digging he has placed the following information at our (• Press's') disposal : House 3 are being rapidly erected along the joain str n et of Kumara, which is now fully a mile in length. Two sawmills are at work on the ground, and timber is also being supplied from two sawmills in the district. The extent and richness of the goldfields are variously estimated, the largest area spoken of being seven by four miles, acd the depth of aurt&rrcms strata being from four to fifteen feet, but no thoroughly authoritative information is to be had. o\<\ minors trace the lead to the Taipo valley, in which there are (juartz reefs. The held, however, is estimated to hut as alluvial diggings for fifteen years. Whether the various estimates; are wide of the mark or not, there can be no doubt that the laboring and n.inino- population are on the move to the ground, parties of fivin ten up to fifty being met with at intervals of from five to eight miles ; only one man was seen to be returning.
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Evening Star, Issue 4241, 29 September 1876, Page 3
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199THE KUMARA RUSH. Evening Star, Issue 4241, 29 September 1876, Page 3
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