THE Accounts from Otago this mail are similarto the .forxner.. The escort brought down , ... on thellthj ,10,400 oz, and it-was calculated that about 70,000 had been obtained altogether. The estimated number at the diggings is 12,000, {i large number of whom are making nothing. There is no striking success, so far as we have ; heard, on the part of any Wanganui party. . Those of them doing well, are making from 12s. to 17s. a day. The expence for food is 30s a week. Robberies are becoming alarmingly frequent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 266, 31 October 1861, Page 3
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88Untitled Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 266, 31 October 1861, Page 3
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