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:-ThRA Hall Gold 'Rushi.
The firab iintimation that the public had'of
the di?covery of this neow goldfield wa+ on
Thursday week,; when it was repoirted that; a
rich find had taken place, and a: prospecting
lease applied for. Ot, the foliowing day and
Saturday theire was a large numberof. people
on the ground, taking up claims and viewiig
the fie'd, hut later ii the day, when. the re
turntisa the assay became known, the excite
menit became in tense, and the most fabulous
reports were curren', arong which was that
in melting some ore on a shovel at the forge,
the shovel wus oomiplotely: plated Witah gold,
and that out of 51bs of stone,31lbs of copper
and gold amalgim was obtained-and to use
a vulgarism "it went like fat." No wonrder
th tt they talked of a second Coolgardie and
Bendigo. As a consequence, on Monday the
excitement had arrived at fever heat, and the
rush continned. To -invest-i;ate into the
merits of the case one of the coun rr repre
sentatives of " the AGE visited the field on
Wednesday, when he found the prospecting
party, just opening out their claim, which
cosiats of ,ich green carbon-tes of onppHIe
carrying go.id gold A prospect" of the rub le
was -washed in his pr?sence and showed' a
very good: reta,'n. This:cliain is held b, E
Rolfe and party, being in ??ea of 20 acres,
which appears to ihe the sizi'.fall the claims
generally-No 1 South,. the prospectors in
Mvssrs. Glaascock' and party' ; No 2 'Sth,
Mr Greaves ; nd a numter of ~ther oldiins,
extending onto private lan"js on the north.
Adjoining the prospectors are Murty and
Southwell's, who hefound busily eng iged
in tr;nching to find the reef; No 2 North,
McOGrth's No 3, .Ker.ihawv; No '`4,. MOc
Govern's'; thus. extending righ :'t ti the
Yass road ; on the east of the -prospectors,
1. Andtrsann; and on the ,ast of McGrath's.
MoAlister. ...iThe prospectors and Murty's
are the only two claitapswhete work is' b ink
oarried on at prrsent.
S'cThe reef is reporied to extend fronm Rseo
Hill - the lati residence of Mr J. Souuthwel
---thriogh Charnwood, the H-all . common,
McGovern's, Rolfe's, And plst the One .Tree
Hill in a northerly direction." Our rep e
sentative found the hiistory of the discovery
of tlhis field tobe as foilows : Sime four years
ano, during: the residence of. Mrh A. South
well at the Hall stote, this gentleman made
the discovery; he covered ul, the place where
he got his prospelt, and ;it lay in ahbyance
until a few weeks agoh; when, in conversation
with hisii brother, Mr W. Southwell, he rd
collected the circumstances, and gob him to
ploonre inome of the stone, which was crushed,
and f: und to contain gold. A semple was
then senri t to Captain's F at for assay, which
yeilded 5joai of gold, 2tozs. of silver, and
27j pr cent of copper. This r?~f is 15 feet
wide
The above'faois arerelidble, as our repre
sentativ. obtaited them from one on whom
he could depend,,, It was alho reportedrthat
ia further assay had. buon mnace by Mfr WV.
B. Andeison, of Go?rla Creek, and resulted
in a return of i4uzs of gold and $0 per cent
of copper per, ton
Another rush is r-porled to have 'taken
pl;cs in the vicinity of Marglle's old public
house, between Yass and Gunning.
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