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Otago Daily Times, Issue 266, 27 October 1862, Page 5

A Sham Lead at the Lachlan.—The Eureka, on the 29th of September, was the scene of very considerable excitement, about 3UO of the miners having rushed the prospecting shaft. In consequence of the want of energy on the part of the prospectors, since the time the lead wa3 proclaimed, a suspicion has been steadily gaining ground that tlie party were scheming, and that the prospects must have been " salted." The prospectors have certainly id'ed away their time after a most extraordinary manner for a golden hole party; from the-time of their reporting payable gold, only a few loads of washdirt having been raised up to the present time. The crowd nonS"quently rushed the claim—all the party being ab« sent—and commenced washing prospects. Betweeu twenty and thirty dishes were washed altogether, and the best prospect obtained was a couple of coarse and one fine speck—equal to about three grains. What is called the."color?'could be got in every di3b, and in some cases a grain or two. After this succession of failures, the flag which floated proudly overhead, with the inscription " Eureka Lead," was dragged down, and afterwards ran up half-mast, with theaddition of a rag at the end. At this juncture one of the prospectors put in an appearance, when he ■was immediately "surrounded, and subjected to a severe cross-examination by the excited? crowd; and " had it not.been for the coolness displayed byafow parties present, it is probable something like " lynchmg " would have been attemnted. The man, however, got off in safety, and nothing: further of importance, transpired.— Sydney Morning Herald, 4th October,' ■ . " Where do yon hail from V* queried a Yankee of 4 * traveller. "Wheredo you raw from?* °Don»t rain atail," said the abtooished Jonathan. v Nei'iec - ' d,o I hail—«o'mind your own business I" ' - "v