RIVERTON.
(peom our own cokbespoitdent.) Jaistuary 6,1870. You had a. paragraph in your paper of a quartz crashing haying taken place on the premises behind the large .store of Messsrs Whittingham "Bros., with particularly good results. I did not then write to you because I learned from the principals that they believed it was not genuine, or, in colonial phrase, it had been salted, and that another crushing of the pure quartz was to take place at the end of last week, which accordingly came off, and proved their suspicions but too «ofrecit,aart--~nDt ~ ~ifbe*~' colorf - even ~- tof gold was found in'the second crushing. But. a greater excitement has occurred — first by a whisper that a gentleman had found a large quantity of nuggets at the Longwood, one of something over ISozs. ; then they were produced, and on Monday and Tuesday shown in Mr Peter Grant's offices, by Is. each admission, the proceeds to go to the Hospital, and I suppose by this the good people of your Town will be gratified by a.sight.of them, as I hear they are taken to Invercargill to be exhibited for the benefit of the same valuable institution, and certainly they are. fine specimens of nuggets.
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Southland Times, Issue 1192, 7 January 1870, Page 2
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