THE CAPE GOLDFIELDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1454, 12 January 1887, Page 2

THE CAPE GOLDFIELDS.

Whatever may have been tie history of the gold districts at the Cape previously discovered, the large trao.-a of country recently prospected has (says a contemporary) c roiled an exd'emeno on accoa t of tho riohcees that u<U3t aoon demand the attraction of oapUaUsß at Borne and oourirtiaad their oo'.fi !e?ca O»pi*ali«ta on the diamond fi.-lds have fairly lost tbeir heads over it. There is already a large Shaw Exchange, which would aatoiuah some of the horns speculators, and th« business done would also suroriae a few All this, it must he rem m bered, has been the work of a few mon-.ha. In that ttnio, wi'hin aHout 60 miles radius, there has bean a number of good payable propeciea fl ated. the capital ranging from £8000 to £2^o*ooo. " Bray's Golden Qi.rry" (SheUs) Orientals and Imperials — all new discoveries — aro fr.rFmoat In the market, fetching £45, £20, and £1 respectively per share if £1 paid up Men who twelve "months ago were not worth a * fir^r," wh'ise costume consisted of the fl.nnel shirt and mulenkin trousers. &o , vsf erred to, ara to be met wi<h every day who are now able to write a cVque from £5000 to £20,000, and m many tustaact^B the old Hyle of c tuime it 'till iiilhe - ed t-i '"O far rb cos'amo- ?b con— corned, people here, as m m at; other 'i'gcinyß, no a'cmut attired, as Mir American cousins say, " Jujt as they darned please."