CAPE OF GOOD HOPE DIAMOND MINES.
The following news from the diamond fields at the Cape of Good Hope, is published in the ' Eastern Proyinces Herald,' of Ist December, 1871:—A miner, Mr Edward Welsb, has been fortunate enough to unearth a diamond weighing fifty carats. A small diamond has been found in one of the reaches of the Orange River in Namaqualand. A public sale was announced by an auctioneer of Grahamstown of diamonds to the value of £25,000. Thoy include ' gems of the first water.' The Dutch boers were said to be bagging handsome fortunes at the diamond fields, from £3OOO to £6OOO having boon the result of their claims, which were not worked out. Two Natalians had returned to Marifaburg with 120 diamonds weighing
886$ carats, the result of six months' work. A young man named Jones from Maritzburg had also returned, bringing a gem weighed 113 carats, for which b.o asked a very largo price.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 966, 30 April 1872, Page 2
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158CAPE OF GOOD HOPE DIAMOND MINES. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 966, 30 April 1872, Page 2
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