" Jack," said a joker, *' Why don't you get your ears cropped ? They are entirely too large for a man." " And yours," replied Jack, "are too short for an ass." The Governor of Sydney has received a despatch intimating that England declines to annex, or guarantee a protectorate to Fiji. A late telegram states that a new goldfield has been discovered near Kilmore, and an auriferous quartz reef near Mornington. Female Prospectors.—The ' Southern Cross' tel s us that four ladies, three married and one single, the latter of whom was formerly a barmaid of the Royal Hotel, Trunkey Creek, shouldered t ols, and went out recently on a gold mining excursion. They found a reef, sunk a shaft ten feet, and took out a ton of quartz, which is now lying at the Belmore machine to be crushed at the first opportunity.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 123, 7 July 1871, Page 3
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141Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 123, 7 July 1871, Page 3
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