A New Goldfield in Otago
(PBB UNITED PR KBS ASSOCIATION ) DcNKDiN, February 7i Donald Sutherland and party, who have been prospecting for some time past on the West Coast, haver applied to Mr Uarew, warden for t*e Otago District, for a grant of a special olaim as a reward under the Act for their discovery of payable gold. The claim they apply for is* a - mile in length and half a mile in width, and is situated about half way between Martin's: Bay and Milford Sound. The ground is near the sea aad of terrace formation, while specimen's of gold found there by them and submitted to the war-* den are of a coarse nature and mixed with quartz. They state that ' they can earn from £3 to £8 per work per man, and there is room in the vicinity for a couple of hundred miners. The Warden intimated that the applicants would have . to supply written statements confirmatory _; of what they bad said, and that the saina would he forwarded to the authorities,
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 91, 8 February 1887, Page 2
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174A New Goldfield in Otago Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 91, 8 February 1887, Page 2
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