MARLBOROUGH GOLDFIELDS.
By the arrival of the overland mail from Dundin we are put in possession of later Marlbbrouph papers. , *"* ' The T)eap Creek correspondent of the Marl' borough Times, "writing on the 14th inst., says : — •;" Since I last wrote, the .greatest activity has prevailed in the river claims in the Wakainarina : the river, kept down this last week, and hopes of fine weather, as well asjn many instances, know- . ledge of what the bottom bed could produce, if got at, have encouraged miners on all sides, to dam up, etc, and go to great expense, both of time and labor. Several flumes are also placed in position, and several water-wheels, some of them of largo dimensions, are beginning to bo seen in many places. Tho lewaco \vorkhl3a on the Govornnipnt township of tho Forks- ato going on satisfactorily; leyerftl shafts have bottomea at about forty-fly?
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 64, 27 October 1864, Page 2
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145MARLBOROUGH GOLDFIELDS. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 64, 27 October 1864, Page 2
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