HOW TO GET UP A RUSH.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 41, 12 November 1869, Page 3

HOW TO GET UP A RUSH.

•Tiie following story wai recently related by a correspondent in one. of the Hokitika journals—- " A good crop of smart sharebrokers is worth. a hundred reefs For getting u;> a rush. I was in the •■s'hapebrofcing business myself in a neighboring pro! viuce. A sharebroker, who died in Bendigo, bequeathed me.five specimens, stating in his will that, put to honest use, they were worth more than the Koh-i-noor. As soon as I got the specimens I came to JNew Zealand and showed them .to several 'parties on a goldfield, and got up ,a mania in no time. Of course, share brokers came up to see what was to be done. One of these gentlemen, whose name I don't know, asked one day it X had got any ' stone out of my reef. I . said I had knocked off a few pieces from a leader, and showed him the specimens. He immediately grasped my hand, and fairly shaking with excitement, said, ' boy, trie best pieces of quartz in -the Australian colonies. To my knowledge, with their aid, thirty-seven comparies in Victoria, fourteen in New South Wales, and seventeen in Queensland besides others I have heard of, have been got up. It is just fifteen years since I saw them first in Bendigo. What will you take for them P" I replied that I did not care about parting with them. My friend sighed deeply } . and, as he turned away to hide a falling tear, remarked, ."in broken accents, ' I have been looking alter these specimens 'five years the hist I heard of them was near Port Curtis.' A tew weeks after this I deemed it advisable to leave the place, not on account of the reef dipping considerably, and the inability of the miners working :n the shaft to find where it commenced to dip, but because I wished to visit a. friend in Victoria. I then sold the specimens to the, gentleman who coveted them. He remarked, as we parted,.. to make a pile up iNorth.' He went to Auckland. Three weeks after he landed there a rush set in."