GOLDRUSH TO THE THAMES
New Zealand 1867-69

by Kae Lewis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1 James Mackay sets to Work - page 1
• 2 The Miners Arrive At the Thames - page 11
• 3 A Digger’s Diary - page 25
• 4 Early Visitors to the Goldfield - page 47
• 5 Miner’s Rights and the Government - page 63
• 6 Quartz Reefs of the Thames Goldfield - page 87
• 7 Mines and Mining Techniques - page 99
• 8 Stamping Batteries for Quartz-Crushing - page 115
• 9 Hunt’s Claim and Kuranui Creek Claims - page 151
• * Maps of the Goldfield - page 178
• 10 Karaka, Collarbone, Hape and Puriri - page 185
• 11 Mining Under the streets - page 275
• 12 Waiotahi and Punga Flat - page 305
• 13 Manukau, Golden Crown, Caledonian Mines - page 385
• 14 The Moanataiari Creek and Madman’s Gully - page 407
• 15 The Kuranui Hill and the Long Drive - page 465
• 16 The Alburnia, Whau and the Cambria Mines - page 505
• 17 Tararu, Shellback Creek and Tinker’s Gully - page 529
• * Tapu Maps - page 561
• 18 Tapu and the Waikawau Goldfield - page 564
• 19 'Fly-Blown' Miners - page 595
• 20 The Businessmen of the Goldfield - page 611
• 21 Life at The Thames - page 635
• 22 The Thames Goldfield 1867-1869 - page 675
• * Appendix:
• * The First 250 Miners at The Thames - page 698
• * Weights and Measures - page 711
• * Glossary - page 715
• * References - page 718
• * List of Claims on Maps - page 725
• * Index of Claims, Companies and Batteries - page 736
• * Index - page 750