A Splendid specraen of water-worn ■gold and quarta, weighing 40 ounce 5 , was ; brought up by two men from Kennedy's r. Bay yesterday, and gold at the Bank of : Australasia. The nugget was crushed ■ and retorted duriDg the day, aud will turn l^out the very handsome yield of 23 ounces |Pof gold, more than half the weight of the ? stone. The men state that they have | been prospecting at the Bay and neigh- % borhood for nearly nine months, and this |iis the firafc good luck they have had. Our ttjeaderg will remember that a sirnliar stone pwoß brought from the same neighborhood iabout «ix or eight months ago, and sold at Itha same back, whilst smaller pieces have li>beeoßionally: /been sold' by prospectiag llparueß returned from this locality.—Adp?:^J(XßN Fostjbb said, 'My, soul shall IfiHher role in my body or quit it.' | 'With. * few exceptions, any pereoa Ipnay kwamnyfching upon which he sets IJiis hmrV—jbr. Olinthus Gregory.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 135, 11 June 1869, Page 2
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