Article 1: Gabriel Read gained fame when he found gold near the Tuapeka River. Thousands of people went to ‘Gabriel’s Gully’ Hoping to become rich. Gabriel Read was from Tasmania and he returned there in 1864 and spent his final years in a mental hospital.
Article 2: On the 23rd of May 1861 Gabriel Read gained esteem and provincial government bonuses when he found gold. Another Character, Edward Peters, had found gold earlier than Gabriel Read in the same area, but he had not proven that the deposits were extensive enough to be economically worked.
Article 3: Gold was identified in a number of Otago waterways in the 1850s but the leaders of the Otago settlement were ambivalent- A gold rush might bring riches.