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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 517, 15 June 1869, Page 3

An incident which happened at Creswick the other day adds another to. the many instances of persons living for years on a spot abounding with gold and yet being indebted to accident for its discovery. On Saturday week a waggoner, named Noah James, who lives at White-flat, brought a load of props up to his house, and while unloading, one of the props fell with the end into the ground, and in rolling over turned up a mass of earth, in which a quantity of gold was visible. James intended to keep the affair secret for a time, in order, no doubt, to save the vicinity of his residence bcinsr dug up: but the children having got an inkling of the affair, set to work at the place, and soon obtained about £9 worth of gold. James then marked out some claims, and there has since been quite a rush in the locality. The Queer's English.—A school committee-man writes :—" We have a school-house large enough to accommodate four hundred pupils four stories high." A contemporary describing a procession says :—" The prosession was very fine and nearly two miles in length, as was also the prayer of Dr Perry, the chaplain."