THE PALMER GOLD FIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 620, 6 March 1874, Page 3

THE PALMER GOLD FIELD.

The following letter has been received hy a gentlemen hi Sydney “ Cookstown, E nrteavor River. Dear The Palmer is right. I don’t suppose there has been so much gold got in the same time on any diggings in Queensland. Everybody says it is the best ‘ show ’ that has been opened in this colony. There has been payable gold got up and down the river for over forty miles. Now the river is up, they have gone into the creeks and gullies, and. some rare patches have been discovered— and 300 ounces having been got in two or three weeks—not by one or two, but by a good many. The biggest piece 1 have heard of was an SOoz. specimen, nearly all gold,'at hast 80oz. of gold. I was only a few days on the Palmer when 1 started for here. Came herein five days from the Palmer. The blacks are very bad ; everybody has to carry firearms. Two or three men have been speared, none killed. I saw two of them that wore speared. Se-' veral horses have been speared, and five I know of killed. Old Johnston,’the carter, had two killed *nd one speared. The blacks cut them up and eat them. They attacked Nicholas, the Greek, killed his packhorse, and speared the horse ho was riding. There haiVbcen a thunderstorm, and his gun would not go off. They tried to sum) und him, hut he got away. They got his blankets and everything hut ins gold. There are no troopers here, and the whites are no goo I after], them, i so they have had the best of it so far. This is a splendid port; the vessels lie alongside the bank and discharge cargo. You come and see it. I think it would be a good place of business. It ant cats to be healthy. ”