RICH GOLD FIND REPORTED.
Greytown Strikes a jgtcli, -
[From - 'Our Osiro Correspondent],
At tlio Greytown Post Office yestpr* , ( day, I met a man whose name it is ; unnecessary to mention, who said to me >•(, " We're found a patch." I asked him to'* explain,. He said in substance as fol- ' lows:—"Peter, the Italian (employed,. * on the permanent way) lives in a hut at Woodside—alone—and has for a long time, past been prospecting the • ranges. This'morning he was offered in my presence by a gentleman (name ' r unknown) ten one pound notes to revisit where: he got the specimen of •' [l gold, from which he (Peter) was show- '' ing. Peter replied," No, not for'2oo one pound notes. I've let myself down ' precipices with a rope and know to get it for myself.". . The man is in no way connected with any other person. For my own part, 1 firmly believe in the truth of the fore- - - going, and it is a remarkable fact that when discoveries of this kind do occur; they are made through tuflkelvmeahs or unforseen accident. *|r fit I promised to let you know as soon as I got intelligence upon which I could rely, and as this bears upon the face • ; of it the aspect of fact,. 1 give you the news as just received. Peter, has, I believe, since left for Wellington taking the specimens with him.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2846, 13 March 1888, Page 2
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230RICH GOLD FIND REPORTED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2846, 13 March 1888, Page 2
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