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, r, OVf ir OOBRWKHn>JinO_ **>& W^townHCisoh -koi i.BBk A prospector} named -.George Sayer, who hai-fouome: time past .been ..engaged m expibrrog'-fhe'ranget up' the source of _tte ATCaiohine RTyer;~and until Saturday *Wwlth%iPe^%H^as atMast -found sbme good prospects. «J^e,_on his return this time, exhibited some fine crystallised quartztln^whibfi gcftd'W* plainly visible to tiM^nalced eyi, but on closer inspection thickly studded with gold. The specimen , waa-found jna small creek which empties ? into.th%-W;ar6h s in J c f RWe^ fand>has evi^eial 1 * main reef by a rolling stone or "something of the kind. He expect* toltralie the reef m a . r f*W 4*7?- He alsa-fbund a beautiful stone I wHcbTl believe: to be^jaspef , in'Tanotner i 4 -creelc; ' He^aysTthereiiS^uife a ree^f of ! : ratfd th»!t irjonr may, be^ .^ad;, m! any quantityr jit isr time something! turned u^ in 'Gfrevtown, foe place seems. to be going bicTt "eyery day; At the pre- \ Mpehi time there kre/ttfmeffiing: like 40 houses unoccupied^ and [thex greater por I r'^dtf^.thesehayebeenjo the past twelve! £i»»9on,thß. 6 3 £ I^t^ several., families nave left for pastures fjaew, and still there are bl!(W»ft^^ifentpWAve pabo^t^aving. .There 4§ nothings J^^&Bm^tQ.do^ trade m every line beipgata standstill. *'*'' ' ■ Mr. C B^WpSa^pFliisfe presented each of %e' Children W* the Grey town School with&P-pffeojliQe Saving's Card wfth the first statqp attached and a new |nap^Austn^m*^rWrw~iZe«knd: ! TheJ^nm&^^aUtikt Te Ore Ore igeeting"'failed totnfespiret the meanf Jj'pjgffle sym^f^n thfefflag he had en : ina dream, ancl^ot 1 ' m nsequenee./* Heiaid be did not pretend to p^ssej^a-I|iib v wjedge no^-gpen to'hira. Thi| say.iVwroethiqg fqr-^i^hoi^esty a|t
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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 128, 26 March 1881, Page 3
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252OUR WAIRARAPA LETTER. Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 128, 26 March 1881, Page 3
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