Prospecting for Silver.
Many years ago a party discovered a quantity of argentiferous rock, lying somewhere between the head waters of the Tararu and Karaka creeks. The excitement of the gold discoveries drew all attention to them, and the exact locality of the "find" was forgotten. A party is now (being organised here to look lor this locality. It is only proper to state that it may prove to be identical with the lode in the Comstock mine, owned by Mr J. C. Williams, Captain Fraser, and others. I may state that when lucky Hunt, of Shotover fame, was here the other day, he took a tramp over the hills in search of the locality of the supposed silver vein, but was, I believe, unsuccessful.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3888, 15 June 1881, Page 2
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125Prospecting for Silver. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3888, 15 June 1881, Page 2
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