The Rush for Gole.
(V&t f v res.(? Association) BwKFy.oN, This Day. So keen is the desire to marff off ground on the Victoria range, where gold- bearing stone waa recently discovered, that when the Warden decided not to grant applications for a 100 acres t on jFriday there waa a rush to the balance cX th,3 e?'ound. One party had prearranged eiftuai? from one eminence to another, a mau Leiug e,(.a^ioned on each. By this means the ground' w&s jje^ged out within one hour after the W&Mien-'.a » decision although the scene is fuUy 3500 feet above Caplestone, and is from four to six hours' walk from here-
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 12 January 1897, Page 2
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108The Rush for Gole. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 12 January 1897, Page 2
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