DISCOVERY OF A NUGGET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11637, 8 November 1887, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF A NUGGET.

» The story of the finding of an 86oz nugget of gold in a vinoyard is told in the following interesting letter from the mining surveyor of the Stawell district;--" Mining Surveyor's Office, Stawell, lofch October, 1887.—Sir,-At about half-past six o'clock a.m. yesterday a man named Charles Hurnall, while engaged in weeding vines in bis garden, near Garden Gully, about a mile and a half south from Great Western township, made a false stroke with his bee, and unfortunately ruined one of his vines. This misfortune was, however, compensated by the faot that the same stroke of the hoe unearthed a fine nugget of gold, which, on its arrival at the London Chartered Bank at Stawell, was found to weigh 86oz 16dwt 21gr. The gold will be forwarded to Melbourne on or about the Ist November ensuing, and I think the Miniug Department should procure a piaster cast of it, as from its form (which may be classed as botryoidal) perhaps some information may be obtained as to the mods of occurrence of such nuggets, the land ; n which the treasure was found had been previously repeatedly turned over. —l have, etc., H. O. Bate, Mining Surveyor. To Mr G. W. Langtree, Secretary for Mines."