THE TEMORA GOLD FIELD.
A party of water prospectors, with boring apparatus, recently arrived at Temora from Adelaide, and one of the number, writing on September 21st to a relative at St. Kilda, Victoria, thus describes the position " Wo started work this morning, and are doing good work. If we strike water we shall be considered the salvation of Temora, We have great' hopes of finding it before long. -As it is, everything is at a standstill—not a pound to be seen. There are a few getting gold, but there are thousands here doing nothing, The great cry is" water!" Every.'
imo ia waiting for the result of our trial. I think if we were to find an artesian well it would be a fortune for us, If we do not I don't know what the people will do, for they have no place to keep water if it were to rain for a month, and the country is so flat that they have no. place to make dams, The only way they can ever keep water is by making large reservoirs to hold it, and I think there is not much chance of that being done."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 601, 22 October 1880, Page 2
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197THE TEMORA GOLD FIELD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 601, 22 October 1880, Page 2
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