Pay Dirt: 'The Westland Goldfields', from the diary of ...
Nov 7, 2016 14:33:50 GMT 12
Post by RKC on Nov 7, 2016 14:33:50 GMT 12
G'day,
Pay Dirt: 'The Westland Goldfields', from the diary of William Smart
Pay Dirt: ‘The Westland Goldfields’, from the diary of William Smart is the fascinating story of how payable gold was discovered in West Canterbury, and of claims to the government’s rich gold reward. It tells how English settler, William Smart, left Christchurch in 1862 to prospect for gold in the uncharted wilderness of the West Coast. Then, in 1887, long after the Canterbury government granted another prospector the reward, which Smart regarded as rightfully his, he was provoked to write his own ‘history’ of the early gold discoveries.
www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/catalogue/pay-dirt.shtml
Regards,
Rob (RKC)
Pay Dirt: 'The Westland Goldfields', from the diary of William Smart
Pay Dirt: ‘The Westland Goldfields’, from the diary of William Smart is the fascinating story of how payable gold was discovered in West Canterbury, and of claims to the government’s rich gold reward. It tells how English settler, William Smart, left Christchurch in 1862 to prospect for gold in the uncharted wilderness of the West Coast. Then, in 1887, long after the Canterbury government granted another prospector the reward, which Smart regarded as rightfully his, he was provoked to write his own ‘history’ of the early gold discoveries.
www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/catalogue/pay-dirt.shtml
Regards,
Rob (RKC)