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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Kyeburn Diggings

Kyeburn Diggings.

Kyeburn Diggings , better known as the Upper Kyeburn, is about twelve miles from Kokonga, a railway station on the Otago Central line. The country is used for pastoral purposes and mining, and there is also a coal pit. It has a hotel and public school, and Presbyterian and Anglican services are held in the schoolhouse, by ministers from Naseby, From the Kyeburn Diggings a road runs over Dansey's Pass—through the Kakanui Range—to Livingstone, and thence to Oamaru.

The Kyeburn Diggings Public School , established in 1884, occupies a section of about a quarter of an acre in extent. It is a wooden building with one room and a porch, and has accommodation for sixty pupils. The teacher's residence, adjoining the school, contains five rooms. Miss Mary Trainor is mistress.

Miss Annie La Grant McCosh-Smith , formerly Mistress of the Kyeburn Diggings School, is the third daughter of the Rev. James McCosh-Smith, of Naseby, and was born in that town. Miss Smith was educated at Naseby, and at Girton College, Dunedin. She also studied at home and passed the necessary examinations, gaining a D4 certificate, and was appointed to the Kyeburn Diggings school, on the 3rd of February, 1896.

Brown, Moses , Miner, Kyeburn Diggings. This well known settler was born at Sawdon, Yorkshire, England, in 1855, and was brought up to agriculture. Subsequently he became a puddler, was engaged in connection with iron-works, and came to Port Chalmers, by the ship “Coromandel,” in 1880. He has long been known as a prominent miner and water-race owner in the Kyeburn district, and one of the water-races, in which he is concerned, is fourteen miles long. Mr. Brown has had fair success as a miner, and is a director of the Kyeburn Dredging Company. He resides at Kyeburn Diggings, and holds an occupation license of sixty acres, in addition to an acre of residence area. Mr. Brown was married, in 1883, to a daughter of Mr. J. Osborne, of Thetford, Norfolk, England, and has five sons and one daughter. Mrs Brown died on the 17th of April, 1901, aged forty-eight years.

Mr M. Brown.

Mr M. Brown.