TASMANIA.
The Launceston Examiner relates two nice little stories of mining rascality : — " One day last week a number of scoundrels accosted the man in charge of the Excelsior Reef, and having threatened him that, should he rise an alarm or afterwards turn informer, they would pitch him into th c creek, proceeded to break out the richest specimens they could find, and. also to wash off some of the casing, having accomplished which they decamped with the spoil. The other occurrence to which we refer to took place at Waterhouse, on the claim of the Tubal Cain Company, where a man named Smith, who has an interest iv the property, was caught at the hour of midnight approaching the shaft with a handkerchief full of rich specimens obtained to all appearance from an entirely different reef. There can be no room left for doubt th*t the object in both cases was 'salting.' Smith is in the hands of the police. He has been brought op before Mr Commissioner Shaw, and remanded for a week."
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 724, 8 September 1870, Page 4
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