Mining News
(per united press association.) Hokitika, November 7. • News has reached town that good gold, has been struck in Back Creek.. Th©prospectors have driven, seven feei through wash giving 15dwt to the load,, and have not bottomed yet. Over '100* men are on the ground, and. there is. great excitement in town. ■ Later. .. The hew rush at Back Creek, hear Rimu, is 1700 ft fram tha edge. of the. terrace. The sinking is in'4isft, with a Wish of 6ft The yield is. about loz tothe load, with easy sinking. The ground, requires timbering.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 61, 8 November 1890, Page 2
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94Mining News Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 61, 8 November 1890, Page 2
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