Canterbury Diamonds.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 211, 11 August 1883, Page 2

Canterbury Diamonds.

(by telegraph) (united press association ) Chbistchuroh, August 9. At the W usee Lands Board meeting today- a large number of applicants prospecting licenses wrre disappointed, as they are postponed till Monday, The Chairman auuuuucod that holders of licenses to prospect foiieited them if they trafficked them ; that future lioena .-,e a would be ouy for out hundred acrei, auu that lease? would be for sixty tot

■>y *ixiy leet-, etoept m ci>h ot prosectors, vrho would have ten tn;;<-p that quantity. The question wh ill- .-> holders of prospecting licenses aiv. to bf -onsidered prospectors is to be decidei* on Monday. Later. At a general meeting of chare_o!der- •. th- Pioneer Diamond Concpany, t>tii.^ht, Kelsey's iast cabl* wa-5 read a tollows : — " Gre*h authority says re "■■ i^ed deceptive : suggests immpilin' sin kins; for larger specimens, wiiich for <yard to me reply : sharply ; also when sent " (sic). This is a continuation oi the reply to a telegram from Christchurch, as follows :— " Most importan you should t legraph imtneliately an•tones diniron ts definite. Use your •od-V' The first part of the reply be ing, " Diamonds have been tested by odmpetent authority, who declares fair proportion genuine ; cabling the result ot the cutting on Friday, and the val*. ne," it is taken to mean that though the diamonds are genuine, the outi ng has reduced the siz? so much that the value could not be ascertained. It is thought Kelsey would notha ye gone to the expeusiof cabling, as he as done, a full message not using the' code., or recommended the expense of deeper sinking, were the stoiies not diauinnds.