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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 344, 19 December 1879, Page 2

The Liverpool Post states on good information that the onormous richness of the old goldfields on the Guinea coast has not been exaggerated in the reports received during the last ten months. To one of our African merchants, who has had a mining engineer at work for upwards of 12 months, a prize has fallen of probably untold value. Sir John Glover's statement that he had travelled over districts whore one might dig up gold like potatoes is all but literally realised in these recent discoveries, which give the enormous yield of £l2O per ton of quartz, at a depth of 50ft, and £3 on the surface, while their extent is practically unlimited. Cardinal Maiming, speaking at a Catholic temperance mcetiDg in Liverpool on the Ist September, said that in Man-' Chester, Liverpool, and London, the Teetotal, League of the Cross numbered