The Big Bay Expedition
[pee united pbkss association.] Invbbcabgill, September 6. In answer to a telegram asking if Government can give passages per Hinemoa to a hundred men in addition to the Southland prospecting party, the Mayor, as chairman of the Association, received the following from the Minister of Mines : — •' The Hinemoa can take up 250 prospectors. They will all hare to bring their own bedding. If any magnanimous individual desires to send a few sheep with the party the steamer can take them, also three or four pack-horses if necessary. I am sending a qualified surveyor with the party, who will lay off tracks inland from the coast, so that road-making ntay proceed concurrently with prospecting. The one will help the other. — W. J. M. Lahnach." The Hinemoa sails from tho Bluff on the 13th instant.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 37, 7 September 1886, Page 2
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