THE PALMER GOLD-FIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 628, 1 May 1874, Page 3

THE PALMER GOLD-FIELD.

Official telegramshave been received by the authorities at Brisbane from Cobktown, stating that several score of miners hud rushed the steamer for free passage. The police were required to clear the ship. About three score assaulted t lip An excited mob, nnmbdi’ing about one thousand, watched the affray from the shore, They rushed aboard, unshipped the staging, and cut off shore communication. After'a struggle, the three ringleaders were and order restored. There had been heavy ruin during the last eighteen days. The creeks are flooded, and the roads unfit for traffic for some time. 'The following is an official telegram received by the Victorian Colonial Secretary from the Queensland Government, beinga telegram from the Police Magistrate at Oooktowa ; 14 Please make publ.o, with the view (if possible) of stopping the present rush, t hat there has been three days’ rain, almost without intermission, and such rain that, large numbers in Coolctowu (nearly four thousand) can neither yet ■o'n 110 V back. Tiro weather prevents those) determined To roach tile Palmer from going, and waul of money many who would rather return south. The Government should try, by every means, to prevent people from coining here, crowding into a place where there is nothing to do and which Cannot be got out of There are more people here than, circumstances justify."