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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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and is celebrated. Doctor Bronson asked Fred if he had learned anything about theproduct of gold in Otago. GOLD-MINING IN OTAGO. 289 I have the figures right here, was the reply. From 1861, whenthe first discoveries Avere made, down to the end of March, 1884, theOtago gold-fields produced 4,319,511: ounces, which were valued at£17,026,320, or about $85,000,000. Most of the gold has been obtainedfrom alluvial washings of various kinds, such as sluicino- tunnellino-, andh3^draulic washing; auriferous reefs have been successfully worked inseveral instances, and unsuccessfully in more. Gold-mining has becomea regular industry of the country, and is less subject to fluctuations thanin former times. Once in a while a new field is opened, and there is arush to work it; but the excitement over such discoveries is not likethat of the five or ten years following 1861. Coal-mining is also an important industry of Otago, continuedFred. Where formerly a great deal of coal was imported, the impor-
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A SQUATTER S HOME. tation has dwmdled to nothing, and for several years New Zealand hasnot only produced its own coal, but has a surplus for export. At leastthat is what one authority says; another says that the exportation con-sists of coal sent to Australia for gas-making, and that the quantity19 290 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. imported for uses to which New Zealand coal is not adapted exceedsthe export by nearly fifty thousand tons. From Dunedin our friends proceeded by rail again to Invercargill,139 miles from Dunedin, or 309 from Christchurch. Invercargill is a prosperous town of some eight orten thousand inhabitants, and is nearthe southern end of South Island, asort of jumping-off place, as Frankcalled it while looking at its locationon the map. The real terminus ofthe island, though not its most south-erly point, is The Bluffs, about seven-teen miles below Invercargill, whichstands on an estuary called New Riv-er Harbor. The morning after their arrivalthe travelling tri

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