Speaking of Fort Darwin as a goldfield, the Cooktowa Herald says :— ' A 1 Victorian miner who was in Cook--1 town in the good old times, paid us a 1 visit on his way south from Fort Darwin, and said cf it * Don't mention I it ! it's no gold field at all. The Chinese will starve by hundreds in the rainy season. There's no provisions to be got there now ; four of us bad to travel two days on six pounds of flour, which was all the stores could spare us.' A surgeon in Hobarfc Town sumi moned a butcher for a largo sum for attendance on his wife, but the butcher said the 'medico was a bungler, and that through his want of skill his wife died. Three other doctors (certificated ones) supported the butcher's view in the evidence they gave, and the verdict was that ibe money should not be paid. Very nice for the surgeon. X ' . x " ' '
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 February 1881, Page 2
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