Kimberley Goldfields.
A writer in the Christchurch Press, wh» got as far as Derby where he ■tayed for five weeks, and fuuked on the journey inland, gives vent to the following sensational monsense. — "I am afraid there will ho a big row there before long, because there is great danger of the people starving. One of the Government foreman was shot at hy two men an the fields as he was load ng his dray one night. The two men wore not caught, aud I think tbey did it because tbey thought he h.id something io do with bringing thmn th<*i«. A man. shot himself on tbe road between Dot-by and Kimberloj' TL* had no moiiey and no food, and shot himself iv despair. I hoard some of tha men say tliat they would alt. Htt all those who had anything to do with causing them to go there, and shoot thninselves afterwards. I know f rom what I saw,- that many of the ni<.n wen? starving, and besides they Wt're short «f water, which sold ut a shilling a bucket. . I could not get auy .meat fora fortnight. Flour cost £_• U for-lOOlb, and mutton, when there was any, 8d a pound, and terrible trash at that.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 25 September 1886, Page 3
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207Kimberley Goldfields. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 25 September 1886, Page 3
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