FAILURE OF KIMBERLEY RUSH.
A telegram to tbs Lyttelton Times from its Invercargill correspondent pay?: —The diggers who returned to Melb nrne in the Oatterthun all joio in giving Kimberley » very bad name.' Deserted drays, spring carts and waggons, are to be picked up along the track, and hundreds of horses have perished, while bodies of men wbo £led la attempting to reach the field ace
strewed on the wayside. The men allege that the country is swarming with r-efs of a sort, but, unf irtunately, not ono of them is gold-bearing. A Hite gold was found in Hall’s creek, amounting, in the aggregate, to 3dwt, but that was not obtained til! af et days of almost fru tlesa work. On a party of three, who had been working at Hall’s creek for about a month, succeeded in obtaining about four ounces of gold, but that was only after working considerably longer than tha recognised eight hours. The men allege most posi tively that the country cannot be goldtearing, as alleged, only the color b nig obtainable. A party who have jus" returned, stated most positively that they had searched the entire Kimberley district 0 irtfully, and gold in any payable quant’ty does not exist there.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 3
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206FAILURE OF KIMBERLEY RUSH. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 3
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