The Kemberley Goldfields

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 3

The Kemberley Goldfields

T .. — THB CAMBRIDGE GULF BOUTK. As an additional .inducement to the Cambridge Gulf route, as com pared with that via Derby, we (Sydney Telegraph) learn by West Australian telegram* that 300 diggers were to procead from Perth thence by the Gulf. . Settlement ia also further advanced than we had supposed. -The Government Resident is located at Bastion Hill, which is some distance further inland that Yiewhill, and is the site recommended for a townsh ip. The Gulf itself is said to be equal to Port Jackson as a harbor. The place is not, as had been stated, destitute of stores. More than bne has been erected at Yiewhill, but, of course, very hich prices are demanded for all necessaries. Without going further than the information to hand warrants, it seems in the highest degree probable, from the testimony of several explorers acquainted with the country, that the shorter route will ultimately, and perhaps before long, be the one more generally adopted. A TWBNTT-EIOHT OUNCB NUGOBT. News frem Derby state that Hall and Slat tery 'a party have found a twenty* eif ht ounce nugget. The Norman Chronicle has the following: — There are some people here who talk of taking teams overland, and if they do so we will point out the straight road. They must go direct to the Karhe rine telegraph station on the Port Darwin overland line, and from there they will follow Alexander Forrest's tracks- to the head of the Fitzroy River, The new field is situated 'about 100 miles north « west from the head of this rivor, aad tha last 100 miles will be the wont part of the roads.', THE BUBH FBOM QUE K LAND. Towksville, May 26— Captain Darke, of the steamer Catthortun, interviewed by a reporter of the Townsville Bulletin, stated that a large vessel like the Gam« bier could not get nearer the landing place at Derby, Western Australia, than five miles. Hames would have to be lightered from tbe ship to shore. .