Palmer River.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 229, 31 March 1874, Page 8

Palmer River.

hiyt r^iye'p.lß^^^WtfeiiS 1 j '4* te * : 4 'm4™to' : were 'begirtsand dm ( s?l'Wß&] congregated M the n>w gold-field • without supphesj and the Vrdiriary r ppurkes, of the place were the demands. The wet season at its ivotsi'; roads forwarding Oh'theroads manymen shujt jn.bysoods ? and, unable to go forward'or'back, were obliged to, 6al their b,orßes.y ore said to have died from starvation and exhaustion. The last of the'flour'wasf sold art the diggings ftt.a fabulous price. Cases'war© told of, men who lived on nothing but grass for. several days. The/ local authorities made a.I I exertions to get; roads opened, and to forward supplies, but the real effective remedy was brought by the -phangeof which alloyed the floods lo subside arid the roads to becotne passable. This averted the danger of a terrible catastrophe, whicb at one time seemed imminent. The strange effect of all this is that it tends to advertise the/rush and bring it into greater notoriety. The digger of average mental ' caHhirej instead? of drawing the inference that it. is ayeryKazardotis enterprise to visit these gold-fields—one notjtobe Undertaken without great preparation--is very apt ,to draw this, conclusion: that there must be great .richness in ttiese ; remote (diggings to induce men tobraye;Bo mupX trouble and danger to go to them. A conclusion, unhappily, not borne.sout by the facte,, as yields in these places, like in all the Queensland diggings, appear to be and the deposits are generally found, to be very narrow and soon exhausted.—Melbourne correspondent of the . Daily Times. > ~' .'■, ',,r