Kimberley Goldfields

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1886, Page 3

Kimberley Goldfields

. : ** •;• • * :•■ Adelaide, July 6. A reporter at Port Darwin, who interv^-ewed the visitors from the goldfields'/ tilicited the following statement : — Thei*presehfc position of the goldfield is about 400 miles from Derby and 300 from "Cambridge Gulf, but the iormer being the best market, the longer trip is preferred i- - • The road affords fair travelling. The place at which Head_eyV'MobTe ahd Co. have been- working, where they obtained, the gold,-* was Brickman's creek, about ten miles from the junction of; the.; Elvfre'river:' Gold has been got in: •emaU patches^ but as i.'yet. there are no eignsj-pfa-dperaiT.neit field whe c they have been tvormiig. There is no water^w,ithjn^hree.. m i.l eB - ; They also stale" that although". possibly a good xeefing: district .'might be opened i:i the f utafrei-there is ho 'warrant for a big rush. of diggers t(»- Kimberley, and noift^_«'Ulfd'c<.»«ie unless \vell equqiped with hordes and rations;

- Tho jstatenieute regarding '; thy'-gold-_iel«!_ J **arJ-e'' of ' tho. 1 niost . cohfiictiug character. It is rumoured that in order ty.pi»vent-an i iiiore.ast>d rush, to l_iuiberi«y the miners are si-unly sendiuglSui&qit&t gold to.procure' pro ,'is-j ious, and ' iif-st of the parties have gold to aJarge.'-pxteht in cam pi Tim actual,g4d bnwightirrio town up o the »pT'eseh^TSin-e? -xhiounts to ' 800(>:' . As fifty mfcn ;ure, . supposed' to have been i^ur ; 'liioiitfis ; '*tho. q uautj fef- stajte.d.. would not produce., a, Tery^d^avemg^i^v;. -„;,..,;* - " .

Kelbochnk, Jul. !5. Tjhe? .ArgUß,correßpoudent-.at Di-rby-: •writea jthat' the populadyu there is u->w fully v. "1000, aud strongly urges th-oso iiiteHding -to go.tv> Kiniberley to del_y theij^epar4ureuut*U. September. ; Wklli^gton, Julj .5. Owing to -the^ lack: of support, the steainer^Tjinisur has ; been withdrawn from the'irip to Kiihbeiley.