ABORIGINAL DIGGERS.
A party out mustering on the confines of Broadmeadows ; run (says the “ Clarence Examiner ”) recently came on a rather strange party of diggers in a very oiit-of-the-way corner. It was composed of eight aboriginals five men and three women. They were wellsupplied with picks and shovels, and their mode of working is fossicking among the. crevices of the river. That they, have found a good, pocket or two was proved by exhibiting a quantity of coarse shotty gold, probably about 12 or 15 ounces in weight. In reply to an offer to purchase the gold, one of the females, who evidently knows a thing or two, replied, “ All right ; you can have it for £3 10s an ounce,” and at once produced a small set of gold scales and weights. 1 The party have eight horses, saddles, and pack-saddles, and what was even a
stranger sight to their visitors, a stock of four fowls. The place they are working at is below the Guy Fawkes, on the watercourse known as the Major’s Water, and the spot is an unfrequented place, where no one ever goes , except it is to gather outside, cattle.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2748, 13 January 1882, Page 2
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194ABORIGINAL DIGGERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2748, 13 January 1882, Page 2
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