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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 8, 27 April 1877, Page 2

The newspaper published ajt Tdpanai speaks of the presence in tbat township of a well-kno^n, character, who name is a*> ' sociated with, the earliest gold day's of Otago. His familar name' is "Black Peter." He says fee worked in Gabriel's Gaily Ions; before Gabriel Reed discovered that gully. "Black Peter " wo in thjs colony long before, the diggings, broke, oat, engaged as a statiop hand, and he usedj to make periodical visits to, Gabriel's gully to make a " rise,"- Peter. has had, the usual ops an&> downs :' peculiar to bis olass— one day a comparatively wealthy man, the nest hard, up. The chance of making an independent ' fortune in, a short time, Peter, like many others, let slip, sad is still a station, hand, " hard up afid broken down." It wotild be interesting to know whether, Peter's story is romance or otherwise. If he made "arise by .the sale of gold before, the days of Gabriel Reed he must or have, been a better " shephered " of his' claim than most men would have been, when the temptation was to tell the Btorj£. of his discover*-, i^j