MORE LETTERS FROM THE KUMARA.

Evening Star, Issue 4265, 27 October 1876, Page 2

MORE LETTERS FROM THE KUMARA.

The following letter, received by a gentle* m tow” yesterday from a friemf who left here for the new rush, has been kindly placed at our (‘N. 0. Times’) disposal 9 Tf°j ß °^ d “f l ™ to this ra ?V, It is simply a wholesale “ dnffjjr, We might os well all have mahed to the top of Mount Cook as come here. The papers said true «»■■* here wanted patience, perseverance, money, and a about heart, and I assure you it is likely to break the stoutest empty the fullest pocket. If with hard work and money gold could be got. there are thousands of men here to do the wort It is a dowjmgWfe' B^004 to talk of so many being on gold. - When you come here yon will find that beine .i® the color, and if yon had the nrer Waitaki at hand, and a lead five miles long. I do not believe a tnousandth part of it would be worth working. Such is,my opinion at'Uresent Of o inrse, something better may turn np.Jmt that has to be seen yet. Men are leaving here as fast as they can, and among those who remain there is a great deal of fever and sickness beginning to cron up. Warn all from coming, °. The following are extracts from another letter, also from an Oamarn man, who writes under date October 19 j— ‘ ?■ Arrived here last Friday, and up till now have, along with- another party of five, prospected a great area of what is called the Kumara Bush. lam sony to say, both from my own experience and the testimony of others, that it is a groat failure, and meaus ruination to thousands. One of the best claims on the lead sold a share for L2s.andtha party who bought it is offering it for 6a. In all the places I have prospected before I could get a better prospect than I can here. It is a complete swindle, and numbers are going away as fast as they can out of the place. Last night there was of 2,000 men with nothing but starvation staling them in the face, listening to some more forward and able than the rest who were standing up and denouncing the Kumara as a complete duffer and a store* keepers’ , rush, and, as one of the speakers said, there was nothing for him to do bat go home "A riddle of bones in a bundle of rags.” It was something dreadful to see the street jnst mobbed, and if there were not easy means of egress fromthe place there would surely be a dreadful riot., I have not heard of one ounce of gold getting in the place. The papers talk of men needing na«. euoe, perseverance, and money; but you may have all these, and yet only one mfive hundred may get *? pi 2S? of B rotUid , “d then only L2 or LBa many buildings Up, but it is only the arriving that is,keeping clear out the better. Though I intend to see it out a little longer yet, I urge npon you to warn all, as far M-you can. from coining hece.ias it will oUybeacaSeof spend. v 2 ? ® r and then leaving with a hbavyl heart and light poioket. It is sad to see party after party coming home tired and weuyev&y‘night, sad. like ourselves, unsuccessful— only the color anywhere.