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Show MADE RICH BY LUCKY FIND. VJiil One of Many Remarkable Gold DIs- H coverles in New Zealand. H Ono of tho most remnrknhlo gold H dlscovorlcs of which thero is any rco- ffJ H ord In New Kenlnnd lias been made In - H tho Mokihlnul district by Albert Win- k M tcr, tho son of a billposter In North X H Shields, England. fiH The discovery wns mado in a re- AiH markablo way. Mr. Winter stooped Kltil at tho edgo of a creek to pick up a PtJll pleco of stone to throw nt a woodhen ll nnd In doing eo ho noticed thnt the fflH stono was gold-bearing quartz. fiil Promptly ho returned to tho town, XH took out hLs miner's rights and with ijAH his mato pegged off claims on tho Hl ground, and subsequently sold out his iHH interest for 75,000. PtiH Albert Winter, who Is thirty years (i'il of ago, left South Shields nearly four elliifl years ago as n Btokor on tho steamer litflH Ilford. Somo mouths lator tho Blilp ivl arrived at Melbourne nnd Winter lott AH her thero. flH For somo tlmo afterward his family iB'iB knew nothing of his whereabouts, hut SKI n short tlmo ago they received a letter 1m il from him. Tho letter was written tVi H from Grannlty Creek, near West Port, p H Now Zealand, and nt that timo np- 'i pareutly he was working at tho mines. " H That prcsumalily was hefuro ho mado ,, )H I his rare, stroko of luck. i tliifl I Tills Is ono of tho biggest gold finds - JH 1 ever mado In New Zealand. Mr. Win- t ! tcr is now on his way home. y lH |