The Kimberley Diggings

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 141, 8 May 1886, Page 2

The Kimberley Diggings

GEEAT fiJStmmX OF GOLD. 4 > FQBTt &tm<3m -JN A DAT. S

■'■ The -news to B|nd of the rush to tba'Emberley diafricjt gives a hope thdt ane# and rich foftFfield is about to be opened up which may have a very material effect iC 'depreciating the value of gold currency the apnUcation ?of %fiidh"^^a%'' 9^e^afj^icrad with such remarkable depres&ion in trade. We are informed 'that ttere exists ay* at area of very rich country and in more than one large parcels of gold Save ib^e^. got. However, it is not a "pdorJinaaa diggings" which means that the sinking is probably deet) and wdter scarce. Therefore men "without miieanft have been warned in time jsot to attempt the adventure. That this advice will be thrust aside :.. ; we h&W Mlbmwleiilge from past^experience in similar cases and nundreds of yalua!ble lives will certainly fee wasted. Sir George/Grey knows the; country weU and he has not denied that it is gpld^B|wri^g. He warns miners that alwholjii the most, deadly pofeon in that The local paper at Perth "pubushes a telegram fijom .Matherh dated two ounces were obkined ik dne day ■;byrt^';m'en v -aii"'flie'"' Kimbejrley. gold* fields ; 650dz8 of gold is reported to be in the hands of the digj^rs, including a 19oz nugget found i^lhallow sinking. The prospecting 1 parfjr, who brought the ffold into came into Freemantle for provisions/ leaving fifty men working on the goldfield when tbey leftY It was reported that the gold was found very r near the surface. There is every promise of a •gteat goldfield. Heavy tropicalralhs fiad fallen recently where the^^ty was working^ The 1 9pz nugget »on the way to Freemantle. :I Another parcel pf gold, containing 60oz,?is coming in tha: Otwayl" . Malet *who returned: to Derby "*& the? Bth. March, ! reports that lie -found a - good, 4^J road to the fields. Old min^wl urre that no one should cbme without sue months' provisions and Worses, ' or plenty of money. % a. v ; ;; v ---" '