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-"I say, boys, " exclaimed Mowbray, looking up from his newspaper, "we ought to have a try for this new rush up there in the North-West. Listen: 'One man in two days won thirty ounces of almost pure gold obtained at the bottom of a shaft twenty feet deep in moderately easy sinking. As yet there are very few diggers on the field, but as steamers are being put on from the southern colonies. um. um. Men are warned against. (oh, yes, of course) . . Bids fair to be the biggest alluvial find seen in Australia for many years. King's Sound is the nearest point to make for by water to the new field, which is situated at the foot of the Leopold Ranges in the Kimberley District of Western Australia.'
-"Boys," continued Mowbray conclusively, as he put down his paper, "we should even now be on our way to this new El Dorado. We've been long enough waiting for a show. Let's clear. I'm full to the brim of loafing around here."