GOLD MINING IN THE SOUTH
(liY TELEGRAPH.— PKKSS ASSOCIATION). Du.vkuin, Monday. .Seveuai', pood finds have been made by parties of Chinese working the river beaches. One party made £17 each for live days work. One man made £15 in two days. The deep lead find at Tinkers is confirmed. The Dunstan Times says the strata gone through alternates from fine gravel to clay, and gold has been obtained in the gravel in every prospect. Tried at 130 feet below the surface level, the prospects began to improve on to the lowest depth obtained, when prospects were got which convinced all that a rich field had been struck. On dit that the Shotover big beach is to be formed iuto a company with a capital of £100,000; the shares are now at f 150. The Home shareholders of the Blue Spur Company are about to commence an action against the London directors for alleged misrepresentations in the company's prospectus._^^^^^_^^ i _ <i _ i><>
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2672, 27 August 1889, Page 2
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161GOLD MINING IN THE SOUTH Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2672, 27 August 1889, Page 2
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