THE NUGGETY GROUND.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 958, 2 April 1872, Page 3

THE NUGGETY GROUND.

I fin our last issue we reported that L e large nuggets had been found etween Christy's and the Lyell, and y the largest of these had been jaei at the Warden's office at During last week five nugef9 ranging from 11 to 28 ounces, e $ gold in town to the Bank of New ea lan<l, and the further report that a w ounce nugget had been discovered used no smallamount of excitement. ) u r Eeefton contemporary confirms he intelligence of a double area havp? been granted to the party, and it W) wives the names of the party who pplied for the prospecting claim. It [ports that a double area claim, two piked and forty feet by one huudred jid twenty feet, has been granted to tntonio Charles, better known as 'Spanish Charley," Nicholini Cacichi, Piscoli Franconi, and William Haley, or alluvial working between Christy's md the Lyell. The ground is situated || the mouth of the first tributary of he Buller river beyond the junction jfthe Buller and Inangahua, up Flax Bush Creek, and is distant about four in d a-half miles from Christy's. A prospecting claim was applied for at Jeefton on Wednesday, and that toother with the reported discovery of extraordinary large finds caused conliderable excitement. The lead is not expected to turn out of any great extent, not exceeding probably ten to twelve men's ground, but the quality of the ground admits of no doubt. In the short space of two hours one of the prospectors obtained two pounds weight of coarse gold, and subsequently a much larger quantity was obtained. Among the gold brought in was a fifty ounce nugget, a good deal waterworn but almost free from quartz. The Warden in order to avoid the disappointments which must have reaulted had the locality been rushed, declined to grant a prospecting claim, hut gave the party a double area.