AUSTRALIAN DIGGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1688, 19 January 1888, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN DIGGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Pastor Brinker, a missionary, writes from Otyimbingue to' Berlin that five gold diggers had arrived there from Australia in August in search of gold. Two were sons of an Englishman who, thirty-three years ago, found gold at the old copper mines at Otyimbigue. They had been saving money for a long time in order to prosecute the nearch further, and they soon found the scene of the former discovery. The missionary says the diggers are astonished at the richness of the vein.

“ The lumps of gold,” ho says, “ may be seen with the naked eye. Dr. Goring, the Imperial Commissioner, believes that millions of marks’ worth are lying at this one place. The spot is below Ahnawood, eight hours’ hence, in a sort of island in the bed of the Tsoakoub. There is more water than is desired, for the diggers scent alluvial gold in the bed of the stream. According to the evidence of these experienced men the place is richer than any in Australia. And now the gold hunt is going to begin.” In the view of this gentleman it will only be possible to work the veins by means of dynamite and stampingmachines, so that companies will be required having at command considerable capital. The Elberfeld Mission reports that gold has also been found in four places between thirty and forty English miles below Otyimbingue.