THE NEW GOLDFIELDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 269, 21 March 1894, Page 2

THE NEW GOLDFIELDS.

SENTENCED TO DEATH. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney. ' hK Day. A township is rapidly springing into existance in Wy aloud where* gold was discovered -recently. The "wateringplaces en route are a picturesque spectacle, and -every evening they are surrounded by hundreds of camp fires. The rush to the field continues unabated, and fresh discoveries are reported almost daily, The schooner Mabel White collided with wreckage off Richmond Heads and sank. The crew had a very narrow escape, but, launching a boat, managed to get clear of the sinking vessel, aud were picked up by a passing boat and safely conveyed into port. Sir George Dibbs, speaking at the Li censed Victuallers' dinner, said he hoped the liquor question would be settled in a manner jußt to a class of people who contributed something like £100,000 annually to the revenue of the country The Employes in the Junction mine, at Broken Hill, have agreed to a ten per cent reduction in their wages The Chief Inspector of Mines reports there is sufficient population on Wyalong goldfield for some time to cowe, and say s that people who have not sufficient means to keep them prospecting for a month should not come to the locality. Melbourne, March 20 A man named Green and his wife have been charged with the murder of a woman by the performance of an illegal operation. To-day Green was sentenced to death, but the woman was acquitted. 1 j ebth, ThiH Day News has been received from Coolgardie that Bailey's Reward claim struck a reef at the 225 feet level, gold showing as rich as on the surface. This development will prove the value of the mines at that depth.