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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 52, 23 February 1876, Page 4

A Melbourne telegram in the Newcastle papers says that the lighthouse keeper at Wilson's Promontory has found on tho beach a strange animal as large as a horse, with a covering of feathers instead of hair, and a fluffy tail. The discovery of a rich gold bearing reef at the Caledonia diggings, Victoria, is reported by the Evelyn Observer of the 28th instant: —" Some few months ago two nuggets weighing respectively 10_!oz and 260z were found in Cobbler's Gully, the smaller of the two falling to the share of the prospector and opener of the gully, a man named John Urwin, alias l Lanky Jack.' Last week he applied to the deputy registrar for a prospect claim on a new reef to be called the 'Yorkshire Lass,' and a regular stampede for claims at once took place. A piece of quartz taken from the new reef, and weighing 4-Hb, has, it is stated, only the appearance, as regards size, of a 21b stone, but a gentleman offered £50 for it. All the other specimens produced are thickly impregnated with gold. The reef, or rather leader, so far as can be at present ascertainod, runs east and west with about one point of a northerly incline, and cuts the Boatswain's Keef at an angle of probably 80."