THE WONDERS OF WESTPORT.
The followiug extract from a letter received from Westport appears in a Liverpool paper : — •*' This is a wonderful place. The mountains seemed crammed with gold. The diggers make about £80 per man per we*ek About 16,000 ounces leave Westport every mouth. The place is full of all sorts of treasures ; even the common stones on the road glitter in the sun like silver, with mica; and on the beach to Charleston the sand is blood red, being composed of minute rubies. This extends for about two miles aloug tlie coast. Our house looks out from the front over the va*t and mighty ocean, the beach extending for miles and miles. The township is not a quarter of a mile from the sea, and at the back, hills upon hills rear their heads in ma-ji-'stii: splendor, someeovered with perpetual snow. The gold-field-**? are quite dose to us, in fact all round vs — Caledonian diggings, six miles off; Giles' Tetrace, 3; Addison's Fiat, o; Charleston, 20; Brighton, 32. Some people fancy this a barbarous and uncivilised place — quite the reverse; there is a great deal to be seen here. Diggers will have amusement, and scatter their gold about like wild oats. The reverse of this picture at Westport is that you see nothing green; no gardens nor shrubs; not even a blade of grass."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 April 1869, Page 2
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226THE WONDERS OF WESTPORT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 April 1869, Page 2
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