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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 243, 4 October 1876, Page 2

Mr Eoberfc P. Whitworth haa been sent down by the Melbourne press to report on the Kumara goldfield. He arrived at Greymouth on Monday, and proceeded at once to the field. The G. R. Argus says: — Coal is now coming down pretty freely by the railway, some SO tons having been brought down on Wednesday, and nearly the same quantity yesterday. The work of loading the vessels is now being more rapidly accomplished, the time occupied from hooking on to one truck, discharging it, replacing it on the rails, and hooking on to another being from 7\ minutes to 8£ minutes, and when some contemplated improvements to the trucks are completed, the manager expects to deliver a truck in five minutes with the steam crane, or fully 100 tons a day. Thousands of acres, says the Bruce Herald, are this season being broken up by runholders in Southland. Turnips are generally sown broadcast on the first furrow. 600 acres thus treated last year by Mr M'Caughan on Wantwood station yielded an immense crop of excellent turnips of large size, which were fed off by sheep. The land is now being sown in wheat, and is of very excellent quality. Additional fresh ground is this season being similarly treated by him. s^The Editor of the Lyell Argus is severely, though not grammatically, moral. This notice appears in his paper of the 16th instaut:— " Pound behind Our Office Door, A portion of a dress, supposed to have belonged to a woman, the owner will please remove it, as we dont want nothing of that sort on our premises ed. l a." One ill effect of the rush to the Kumara is (says the Weslport Times) becoming apparent. Just prior to the departure of each steamer going South, ' individuals in ,'groups of twos and threes come stealthily into town after nightfall, and covertly getting themselves and swags aboard, depart without the formality of bidding farewell to either friend or stranger. The number of current accounts across which the memo " bolted " will have to be written by Westport men of business is increasing portentously.

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