MOONLIGHT.
- There are rumours of a probable rush to this district shortly. A well known and very energetic prospector is said to have discovered good ground somewhere on the range between the head-water of Moonlight and the sources of the TenMile Greek on the North Beach. That there is good ground in this locality there can be no doubt. The workings at the upper part of Canoe Creek were among the very richest ever opened on the West Coast. The rush to Addison's Flat and other districts northwards took place just when the diggings at Canoe Creek were on the wane, and the place never got a thorough prospecting since. Prospecting in these out-of-way localities requires some capital, a commodity which is unfortunately becoming scarcer among individual miners every day. An intellectual looking man came to Ahaura a few weeks ago, and exhibited a quantity of goodlooking quartz specimens, which he said he found on the ranges north of Moonlight. For obvious reasons, he did not succeed in forming a joint stock association under the Mining Companies Act.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1416, 13 February 1873, Page 3
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178MOONLIGHT. Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1416, 13 February 1873, Page 3
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