Wampit “Rush” is Finished
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From Our Own Correspondent
Edie Creek, Jan. 10.
* I ’HE Wampit “rush” is long since over and most of the “rushers” have re turned whence they came.
Only about 20 men are still on the field, and of these perhaps a dozen are on payable gold. Most are working below or alongside of Messrs. Babbington’s Reward claims. Two miners still remain well up the left fork above the waterfall, whilst the right fork is entirely deserted.
A few miners are still scattered in the surrounding country prospecting. Mrs.
Rex is somewhere at the head of the Wampit River; Mr. George Pearce, who was testing Graham and Smeaton’s Wam pit areas for Spence and Smith, has left; and Mr. Jack Banagan is on the job pitting. Mr. J. P. MacNamara has set himself up as agent at the ’drome, much to the satisfaction of the miners.
Rev. H. S. Perkins, of the London Mis sionary Society, returned to Apia, Wes tern Samoa, by the Wairuna on January 2, after a lengthy holiday in England.