Wankaringa Goldfields
[EEUTES'S TKLKGBAMB.I Adelaide, October 21. Great excitement is being caused in this city by the encouraging reports which hare been received from the Wankaringa goldfields. Several diggers have telegraphed to their friends telling them to come at once. There; are already 800 diggers on the field, dry fossiking. One man succeeded in getting 16 ounces of gold for a week's work. Mklbofbne, October 21. Several persons have left Groulburn for the Wankaringa goldfields. Hundreds of men. are leaving the agricultural districts and provincial towns for the Wankaringa goldfields. October 22. The mining warden at Zeetupla telegraphs that a thousand men are on the field at Wankaringa. He asserts that only one gully is giving gold in payable quantities, and any great rush is quite unjustified.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 57, 23 October 1886, Page 2
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