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"GOLD RUSH" IN metal until the middle of the last
BRITAIN.
PROSPECTING IN EARLY DAYS.
27-OUNCE NUGGET.
the
century..
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.
in
Gold has been found in Cumber- land and at Clevedon In Samerset. To come to more recent times. Conglomerate carrying 0 grains of In the early part of last century gold to the ton was discovered in gold was profitably mined by Sir 1007 in the Forest of Dean Thomas Hawkins at Ladock in Gloucestershire. Cornwall. Gold benring volns In Wales, the main source of occur at Grampound; here a nug-gold is the Dolgelly district. The get of over 16dwls, was found, Romans mined extensively here. orna. in 1846 gold was discovered at Finda of Roman pottery. t."Tenth, and in 1852 gold bearing ments, &c., have been frequent. artz velns were located in Old workings on a large scale lelaton. In most of the streams oxist, and the grooved stones used flowing south, small nuggets are for crushing the quartz are found not uncommon. One weighing in the district-In-recent--times 2oz. was found at Cannon.
mining has been spasmodically carried on here, and from 1861- 1906 gold to the value of £417,183 has been recovered.
MODERN BATTLE IN ments, displaying wonderful "arti-
MINIATURE.
EMPIRE DELEGATES
IMPRESSED,
Ap-
calation," caused, much amuse- mont, and the drivers wore plauded for their exceptional skilt In handling machines with move- ments so surprisingly eccentric, "A marvel of engineering skill and scientific invention" was the oft-repented phrase of the on- lockers.
Tank "Derby" Winner.
Another machine carried on 18-
The
Kun
this medium sixwheeler, and a trailer
MOBILE FORTRESSES Occasionally one would be in- troduced to an instrument of for- London, Oct. 20. The presont interest in
cigu origin which British on-
have A Tank "Derby" for all weights,gineers
improved. The Dolgelly-gold-area-brings-to mind
under handicap
Favesti Tractor with 18-pdr. gun, conditions, attracted considerable attention. the fact that gold mining in Great Britain is by no means limited to
Kymkhana for the younger mem-lore the extraordinary "articula- Devonshire Mines,
bers of the Tank family, a stub-tion" of which i hava spoken, was North Wales. The Devon and
bornly contested baltie controll- especially demonstrated. This Cornwall gold deposits, both reef The existence of gold in Devon
ed by radio-telephony, and girder machine is used in the Italian and and alluvial, were considered suf- has been known for many Cen-
Sixty Per Cent. Dividend. and pantoon bridging. These were Spanish armies. For expert- clently remunerative to be exten-turies. In the beginning of the
the sallont features of an excel-mental purposes five of them wore Nineteenth Century a miner named The St. Davies mine had
lontly staged War Offco demons- given a Battery of the 10th Bri- sively worked between the reigns Wellington discovered gold at spectacular career. It was con-tration witnessed on Saturday, at gade R.A. of Henry II, and James I.
Shepston, in South Devon. Ite trolled by Lord Reading's brother. Aldershot and Camberley, by dele- Numerous grants and patents sold gold to the value of over £40 the late Mr. Godfrey Issues of gates to the Imperial Conference, exlet issued during this period, to Allvermith in Plymouth; he Marcon fame. The company
The progress made in placing £39,729 In net profit of In 1564 some German mining fin never disclosed the location of his made ancfors were granted the monopoly and, and his aceret died with him. 1900, and a dividend of 60 per cent. the Army on wheels behind sheets pdr. gun after the French system
North Molton in the principal was paid. The shares mounted of steel, and the Inventive genius of "Artillerie Partee." to seek and recover gold in Eng-auriferous district in Devon. Here high on the Stock Exchange. How behind the mechanical and selentl-and crew were transported on a land, Wales and Ireland within are the Britannin and Poltimore ever, this happy state of affaire fe devices which enable
model Army literally to "go any-sccommodated ni agricultural orc the pale. This was confirmed and mines, now closed down; they did not last long--the rich
A trial umplißed by James I., and became contained payable ore.
shoot petered out and the company where and do anything," filled the tractor and ammunition. The ab- method to carry not all petrol the Charter of the Royal Mines run of 20 ions yielded 2020. of ceased operations amid a good deal visitors with wonder But it was Ject of this
and armour. guns lang distances at high speeds gold. The total value of gold proof recrimination.
Cavalry and infantry (thought by
without Company, which existed and claim-duced at Poltimore in 1853 wan
injury. At a point where At this time one of the greatest some who have become obsessed it is necessary to proceed across ed the right to nil royal, de, gold,Į £581.
gold mining experts living re-with the machino, to be ebaoles country the gun, tractor, and am. ported on the mine and the discent) were there, and played an munition are removed from the trict and the gist his opinion important although inconspicuous lorries, and the Journey continued was that the whole field was *patchy" and "pockety." and there. Part.
to the battle zone, the gun now. Shock action is no longer thebeinir towed by the agricultural fore essentially speculative. This
men.tractor. should be borne in mind should primary role of mounted
re- To those specially interested in any further development arise They are now employed on
connaissance, scouting, Bank the evolution of the fighting vehi from the prominence the district e
movements, and dismounted work, eles the new 18-ton Tank was the being given at present,
There are still places where horse picca de resistance. The features and foot soldiers are the most of the model are three turrets, the mobile troeps. Those who
wit-central one containing a 3-pdr. nessed the "ight" must have and a 303 Vickers gun on a new realised this
type of mounting designed to facl- problems. The The spectators were accommo-late gunnery worked out, traces of gold can dated in a grandstand оп the smaller turrets are equipped with still be found. In Sutherland 21
the two 303 machine guns so that it 14oz. nugget was found in 1952, fringe of the Long Valley,
place of many "battles" under the possible to fire simultaneously in 1865 gold was found at Kil-old order. They were actually in five machine guns frontally or donan, end in a short time some the firing line where the discharge four machine guns and one 3-pdr 300 prospectors were at work.
of the 37 howitzers operating In As to speed and climbing por- "close support" male the earthformances Saturday's demonstra- tremble.
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The Vale of Avoca.
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sants
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It was a small scale battle in which all the component parts of to eliminate, or at least greatly to the intricate and powerful mainimtee, the danger of fire and
for greater safety of chine were thrown into the fight.engine and transmission are in a the crew the quantities prettrred in the Vale of The "enomy" was holding a strong separate compartment. The divi
and "held position at Rushmour, Avoca, In 1765 a small nugget the cavalry and
sion from the rest of the Tank la infantry made by was found. A boy fishing found rushers.
non-heat-conducting The Light Tank another in 1795, and then came a
bulkhead. Another safety device went to their support, while the real gold rash. The peasants
the Is the storage of petrol in armour- locked to the spot, and a typical anders opened fire and then ad compartments.
a smoke curtain to gold camp appeared in a night put down
screen the advance of the The Government claimed the dis
Medium Tanks. The realstance covery, sent militia, drove the pea-
was temporarily broken down and high as though it were composed away, and operated
of paper. Finally, it distinguish workings till they were destroyed the advanced troops were abled itself by winning the "Derby." by the rebels in '98. During this make headway under the support. There were seven entries. Period the Government recovered in re of 18-pounders, 4,7 howit Mark V. (80 ton) Tank gold to the value of £1,675, Dur.zers, and 3-inch mortars.
along at four miles per hour. The ing four months in 1840 Crock- Before the fighting ceased
Medium C (20 tons) moved at ford and Co. worked this deposit curtain of smoke und dust divided about six miles per hour. The and recovered £1,800 worth of gold, the non-combatants from the com- present day tank (10 tona), with including two nuggets,
batants. This served to indiente
speed of 16 miles, made great ef- 1oz. and the other dez. 1idwts. the end of the first net of the day's forts, to lead its rival, but the
These In all it is estimated Home £36,000 performance.
operations
Medium
and Light Tanks were all has been recovered from the Gold. were not intended as a lesson in left behind by the scratch 16- to tonner. To the delegates they show the nae made of the
and other quickly none was disposed to "financial moving armoured machines speculation," although there were combination with other arma, to jocular offers. The Light Tanka demonstrate their fire power, and showed their ease of movement by 181 generally to give a picture of what something approaching a gymk-
ann display, a modern battle would be. like.
Later there was a "march past" "At Camberley the work of bridg. of unarmoured transport vehicles ing by the Suppers and the exhibi- £1,000 carrying heavy loads of military tion of scientific equipment at the stores, and negotiating difficult Staff College were other attrac- £28,000 country, and of armoured fighting to items in a heavy but interest-
vehicles, carriers and Dragonsing programme. £h-48,764 (tractors). A few of these ma- The delegates returned to Lon- chines were quite now. "Their don satisfied 'that we are leading This is certainly greatly below straining, wriggling advance over the world in the way of a muc-
B zig-zag system of entrench-banised army.
one
of
mines River at Avoca since 1705. 1actles. They were, primarile I were all "dark horses," so that
The official figures for the gold
recovered in Great Britain and Ireland are:
England-North Molton,
Devon
Wales-Merioneth,
1844
Scotland-Lanarkshire Scotland Sutherland Ireland
Totel
since
£117,183 £100,000
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