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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2625, 7 June 1877, Page 2

The Primate of New Zealand, ! ~' Harper, on a recent visit to the Kumara diggings, attended a meeting and addressed the audience to the following effect:—" He had not yet got over his surprise at what he had seen on his visit to Kumara. During the day he had traversed, what he believed was called the Lead, as far as the path would allow him to go. His surprise was not merely at the extent of the gold diggings, but at their permanent character. Not ten months ago there was not fl building on this place; now there was a large and flourishing township likely to extend and to be permanent. He had had experience of the goldfields of New Zealand, but did not recollect one which had struck him as this had. The buildings indicated that the inhabitants had found good reason to make up their minds to stay on the spot. There were also good paths and roads. The miners, whom he thought capable of doing almost anything, yet required tracks -to enable „ them to get about the country, aad he (the Bishop) would tell the authorities that they have to do more still towards opening the country to enable the courage, energy, and patience of the miners to obtain the gold from the bowels of the earth. Not many months would elapse, he believed, before a much larger extent of country would be found to be a goldfield."— Napier Telegraph. ,

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