THE WONDERS OF WESTPORT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 485, 1 April 1869, Page 2

THE WONDERS OF WESTPORT.

The following extract from a letter received from "Westport appears in a Liverpool paper:— "This is a wonderful place. The mountains seem crammed with gold. The diggers make about £BO per man per week. About 16,000 ounces leave "Westport every month. The place is. full of all sorts of treasures; even the common stones on the roads glitter in Bun like silver, with mica; and on the beach to Charleston the sand is blood red, being composed of minute rubies. This extendß for about two miles along the coast. Our house looks out from the front over the vast and mighty ocean, the beach extending for mileß and miles. The township is not a quarter of a mile from the sea, and at the back, hills upon hills rear their heads in majestic splendour, some covered with perpetual snow. The goldfields are quite close to us, in fact all round us—Caledonian diggings, six miles off; Giles' Terrace, 3; Addison's Flat, 6; Charleston 20; Brighton 32. Some people fancy this a barbarous and uncivilized place—quite the reverse; there is a great deal to be seen here. Diggers will have amusement, and scatter their gold about like wild oats. The reverse of this picture at Westport, is that you see nothing green; no gardens nor shrubs; not even a blade of grass."