GOLD RUSH PIONEER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 993, 9 June 1930, Page 14

GOLD RUSH PIONEER

One of the four original discoverers of the Rand goldmines, which have been valued at £200,000,000, has been found living In a penury in a remote part of the Transvaal. He is Samuel Honey ball, who for long has been believed to b 9 dead. Shaggy and unkempt, he tells how, with Frederick Struben, the original finder, he beat the quartz in an old tin to extract the gold. Today he has only a pension of 12s 6d a week, half of which goes in rent. Mr. Struben now lives at Spitchwick Manor, near Ashburton, Devonshire. When the news was telephoned to him he said: “I barely remember the name of Honeyball.” Forty-six years, however, have elapsed since the great gold rush. Mr. Struben, who is a man of SO, told recently how he led the rush in ISS3. If his faith in the newly-found goldfield had been shared by his companions, he said, the whole Rand territory might have been bought for a song. In the vanguard of the rush was a companion of Honeyball’s, who died recently worth millions— Sir J. B. Robinson.