PICKING UP DIAMONDS.
The report of an English journalist who has visited the wonderful diamond Held recently discovered in German South-West Africa is published in the "Investors" Guardian.' The report in some respects recalls the features of the alluvial gold, finds of Australia and California, except that, in place of huge gold nuggets, the searchers finds a multi • tude of small diamonds. Natives on hands and knees, or lying prone, search the gound, pick up what diamonds they can eee, and place them in a match box! "Later on," the correspondent says, "I also went to the prone poeifi'j!', and was rewarded by picking up two diamonds." On une property 36 natives had picked up or; an average 300 oarats of diamonds per day; the best day's picking was 439 carats, and the laregst number picked up by one boy in one dav was Til." But 40 stones is accountsd a good day's work—"when a 'boy' has picked up 40 stones he is allowed to knock off work for the day!"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 4
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171PICKING UP DIAMONDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 4
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