Kimberley Goldfields

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 18 September 1886, Page 2

Kimberley Goldfields

[FROM OTT& OWN COBREBPONDENT.]

We hare received from Our -Own Correspondent at Derby a letter dated August 2, from which we learn that the Feilding contingent are all in good health. The climate in Derby is delightful, the nights . being cool, while the heat of the sun is not felt so strong as in New Zealand in summer. The news from Kimberley were scanty. One incident is mentioned where a waggoner on his way to the digging© sold the whole of his goods a hundred miles from his destination, and had to rflturn for more. There is abundance of grass and water on the road, which. is very good all the way to the -goldfields. The writer's party started ia the afternoon of August 2, and he promises to write immediately on hia arrival, so that the friends and relatives in Feilding may be kept well posted of the movements and fortunes of their husbands or brothers. Most of the diggers now land at Cambridge Gulf instead of Derby, although the latter is the better road. There was heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday, which did a great deal of good to the grass. He concludes r i>y saying— "l would advise any who thinks of com- , ing to wait for six months, by which time the field will be proved good or bad. There is any amount of game — small and great. The diggings are not what the papers represented them to be, and those in New Zealand misled a good many men who would otherwise have stayed at home. A good many of our passengers; went back by the same boat, and a lot more have to wait in Derby until they have a chance of going up. Cartage to Kimberley is £6 10s per one hundred pounds weight. This makes provisions very dear at Kimberley."