HOKITIKA.
Monday. The population of Westland County is 11,653; Grey County, 7772. A report has reached town that two brothers named Spencer (representatives of Messrs Burton Brothers, of Dunedin), while on a photographing tour up the Waihoa river, at the foot of Mount Cook, discovered some payable gold on Waihoa flat. They returned to the stores at Firemile Beach, where they purchased mining tools, and returned over a very precipitous country. Nothing definite is known as io the prospects obtained, but it is believed they are sufficient to induce them for the present to abandon photographing for gold digging, as they left with a miner fully equipped for a trial of the ground. The Spencera have been trying the very plucky adventure of reaching the top of Mount Cook under most unfavorable weather, and had several narrow escapes. The reef at Butcher's Gully, near Hokitika, is reported oh so favourably that a party is beiDg formed to erect a crushing plant.
(FIOM A COBBESPONDENT.)
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2866, 23 April 1878, Page 2
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164HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2866, 23 April 1878, Page 2
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