Gold Diggings.
Th s Southland Times has been informed on trustworthy authority that a partj of six men have for months past been workiug on the Bhore at Bushy Point, about half way- between th« Bluff and Mataura rifer, and have, notwithstanding considerable labor m pumping water for washing, obtained, on tLe average of each month's work, not les i than 15s per day. The ground or rather beach, has m some instances been washed three or four times. When - a patch is exhausted the party, move ,• a little further on, the deserted ground : bsing left until after a v heavy south r ea« swell has set in.|, The party then return, and the area is gone over again '"'*' wiihihe result-of hbj less than 'lss per day on the average of the month, and;" ".> there appears to be no end of this working.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 48, 20 January 1883, Page 2
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143Gold Diggings. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 48, 20 January 1883, Page 2
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