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Patea Mail, 3 May 1882, Page 3

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This Afternoon.

Mr .Berry’s TacticsMelbourne.—A caucus of Constitutionalists was held yesterday, at,which it was decided to support Government against Mr Berry’s no-confidence motion; Ministers now expect a majority of fifteen. ... Shijpwreck. Melbourne.—lntelligence.. is to, hand that the Garstang," SOT tons, became a total wreck at Amoy, China. The officers and crew were saved.,

Outbreak of Small PoxMelbourne, this . day,—-The premises in Swansou-street, occupied by, Nimbs, are declared in quarantine by the. Health Officer, as it is believed Mrs Nimbs. is suffering from small-pox. ' Considerable excitement has been caused by the reported fresh outbreak of variola.. .

RICH GOLD DISCOVERY.

The township of Matlock (says the Melbourne- Leader) is the highest inhabited ;place in Victoria, and, a bare, bleak, cheerless place it is, especially in the winter time, when sft. of snow on the level,' ahd 12ft. or 15ft. in the drifts may frequently bo seen : Ever since the great rush, some 20 years ago, the silence of, . desolation has brooded over this bare, bleak hill, presenting in its three or four lints, and in the traces of sonic few others which have been left in the shape of mined chimneys, quite a contrast to its near and .comparatively neighbor —■ Wood’s Point. ■Last week, however, the long silence of the almost deserted township was broken t { by the startling announcement that a , wonderfully; rich reef has just been opened up, and that there was every prospect of a large rush to the place. The announcement was to the.effect that at a place between Jericho and Wood’s Point, and close to the main road, two prospectors, Allan Folks and Patrick Manyx, began about a month ago to prospect the old Perseverance claim, and within a fool of the surface came across a reef, which, up to Friday*; 3rd March, yielded from Boz. to lOoz to the ton ; that oq.the day just mentioned they broke with their pick 60oz. of pure gold ; and that they have now come across such wonderful slonojthnt it is ; believed a ton of it will yield no loss than 18cwt. pure gold. The story recalls the old flush times at Ballarat. : Can it 1 be true, is the question which naturally rises to one’s lips. To that question we reply by stating, that, immediately on receipt of the information, which, we may say, came from our correspondent at Sale, we telegraphed at once to Matlock, and the telegram sent in reply was corroborative cf the original report in all respects, save that -there appears to have been some slight exaggeration in the statement that a rush had taken place. The shaft, we wore informed, was 129 ft deep and the •prospect! k 'were '.splendid. The exact locality of this last sensational find of gold is htdf a mile; from . Matlock; township, and 300 yards south of a place called Toorak, which consists of a few miners’ houses, perhaps a : dozon in all, dropped down apparently by accident on the roadside, just at this point that wonderful piece of rptidmaking—the; Yarra track—overlooks on one side the Black River Range and Valley of the Gonlbnrn, and oh the other the Valley of the Jordan lies some 1500 ft below the spectator. Beyond the Jordan, range rises after, range,..all densely timbered, and swelling upwards - to Mount Ban, Ban, whose scarped and towering summit forms an appropriate termination to a view of mountain and valley unequalled in Victoria. In all this district large finds of gold have been made, and work is being pushed on, although the evidences of failure are many.