A NEW GOLDFIELD.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43081, 13 April 1907, Page 4

A NEW GOLDFIELD.

Poseidon (in Victoria) has a rival in its neighbourhood. 'A new rush has broken out near the old “Slip-Up” diggings, half-way between Tejmagulla. and°Newhridge. The field was first worked about forty years ago, when it proved a -“duffer,” and two miners who got stranded became lost in the bush, °and died from starvation.' Several fossickers have at times got good gold from pot-holes in the old gully, but they never succeeded in finding the lead. A prospector from the Poseidon field has, however, now located the gutter on Crown lands, _and obtained lOdwt of water-worn rrold from the bottom of a 12ft shaft. There were soon over one hundred men on the field, pegging along what is considered to he the line of the reef. A good deal of development work will he necessary to thoroughly prove the ground. .

Our Walihi correspondent writes:—• “Mr W. B. Rowan, of the Hamilton Post Office, has been transferred to Waihi and his plaice at Hamilton lias been filled by Mir 0! Thompson,' of Stratford. Mr Rio Wan has arrived at Waihi to take up his new duties.” When a man named Robert Hill was before the Paeroai Police Co art for drunkenness it was stated that at rangements had been made to send defendant to the Old Men’s Hlome at Thames, as he was an old man and was losing his memory, He bad been sent to the Thames, but had cExme back again. Defendant was brought before the Court for his own good. iThe Bench said that the best thing that could happen Ito the old man would be to send him to the home, and on defendant agreeing to go there he was convicted and discharged.