A LUCKY FIND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 55, 27 February 1869, Page 6

A LUCKY FIND.

Gold-mining in Victoria has been for so many years a steady-going pursuit, followed by a particular class, with a definite remunerative result, that the exciting lottery of the early gold-digging day a is almost forgotten. The time when luck was everything and judgement of little utility — when men want to work on " tucker " gratuitously supplied by the storekeepers, an;l lighting on a rich patch, returned the kindness in nuggets — when prizes and blaaks rapidly alternated, ha 3 past for ever on inosi; of the gold-fiolds. Deep-sinking and quarts-crushing have rendered mining a great undertaking;, wherein capital and labour assume the positions they occupy in other m 3 .'can tile operations. But that there are still parts of the colony where go.d-digging remains a thing of the cxtremsst chance has been made evident by the discovery of a mass of ore close to the surface, 2101 b. in weight. It was found by two men working in company, who thus suddenly became th? possessors .of a priso worth £5,003 to each of them. This enormous "find," coupled with fie fact that an extensive new goldfiyld is now being opened out in the M'Tvor district, indicates that it will be long before this COIOU7 need yield to any part of the world as a goldprodueing country. Tliis is tho largest fcin^le mas 3of auriferous metal yet dug out of Mother Earth's breast, though it may be destined to bo immaasurably surpassed by subsequent discoveries. The announcement; of the uu3arthing of t'lis golden mammo Ti had a noticeable effect on the Malboarns Rialco. One ingenious speculator proposed at oivc to start a company to puddle the w'lole of Victoria, cornmsn^insj at the Bea board and working inland ! — "Australasian."