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NUGGETS OF GOLD.
PECULIAR MINING CASE, .
? MELBOURNE. Anril 18.
-iVivid .visions of a rich gold mine were
raised before those assembled in the First
Civil Court, presided over bv Mr. Justice
Hodges, to-day. Thomas Patch. hotel
Keeper ot Little ucndiRO, near Uallarat,
claimed £1,350 from Nathan Bear, mach
inery merchant, of South Melbourne, as
representing the value of certain cold al
leged to have been sold by defendant on
behalf of plaintiff. Defendant, in his state
ment of defence, denied indebtedness. The
whole of the money received for the use of
plaintilf had, he iroted, been wild or ap
plied hv defendant for the use of the
plaintiff.
Mr. Starke, in opening the case .for the
plaintiff, said it was a moit extraordinary
one. Plaintiff was the owner of a mine at
Little licndigo, and from it he had won
considerable quantities of gold. In June,
100S, plaintiff and defendant met in trans
actions relating to the purchase of machi
nery, and in the following year defendant
undertook to poll for plaintiff the gold he
obtained from his mine. It was alleged by
plaintiff that defendant bad cither stolen
the cold or embezzled tne proceeds of it.
Plaintrff said pretty well the whole of
the cold was got from the mine ia April.
The cold was nicked from the face. It did
i«H go tliroucn the baUerv at ail. There
were 50-oz. pieces. Be purchased the mine
battery and engine for £250. The gold was
not showing in the face when he got the
mine. It had not been worked for St
yean, and at the surface there was gold
with mots on it. The nuggets ranged from
90 oz. to that (pointing to a specimen
shaped like a swan's egg).
The case stands part heard.
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