The Alpine Lake Hydraulic Sluicing Co-

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3706, 30 August 1906, Page 3

The Alpine Lake Hydraulic Sluicing Co-

rush FOR THE CELEBRATED “FIVEMILES,” NEAR OKARITO. The latest news respecting this claim, which is now on the market, is that heavy seas have recently stripped the beach along the boundary of the claim, and exposed a large quantity of gold-bearing black sand, and that the event has caused a rush to the locality. Advices from the coast'state that Captain Richards, Inspector of Mines, had said all the men on the roads between Ross and Okarito threw down their tools as soon as they heard the news, and made for the beach. The latest information is that the mining registrar at Okarito wires that one party of 14 men had obtained worth of gold in the last fortnight. This confirms the engineer’s report as to the undoubted richness of the ground. The promoters of the company are taking steps to prevent the ground held by the company being worked by the diggers. Mr M. H. Murray (formerly representing Messrs Cutten Bros., consulting engineers on the West Coast), writes;—“ I consider that the late storm has clone more for you than would the reports of a hundred experts, lor it has laid bare to the naked eye the richness of the “ Five Mile.” The local broker for the company is Mr W. T. R. Cook.