Southern Mining.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4546, 31 July 1883, Page 2

Southern Mining.

■•'-.,:•■• Chbistchubch, Yesterday. One of Smith's party has returned to South bridge with amalgam, the result of washing up. He estimated that 10s a day can be made after paying all expenses,— that h working eight; hours. The result of the washing up is as follows :—Out of eight loads of dirt, half or three-quarters of which was got together at first without any trouble being taken in selecting it, five penny-weights of cold were obtained. He estimated that from carefully collected wash the yield would be two or three penny weights per load. Another party of three individuals hare applied at the Waste Lauds office for prospecting licenses at the Ninety-mile beach. N Ashbubion, Yesterday.

The excitement is increasing here over the jfbld discovery at A.lford Forest; a prospecting party will soon be formed. Several quartz specimens were exhibited on Saturday showing payable gold. Saturday morning's Ashburton Mail saysi::—Yesterday we were shown some miniature nuggets, alleged to have been picked up near the mouth of the Ashburton. The finder is a man of long standing in the district, and we place implicit in his veracity. As- he exacted a promise to " keep it dark/ 1 our readers must remain in ignorance of the exact site of the discovery for the present.