Coolgardie Goldfields.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 101, 23 October 1894, Page 3

Coolgardie Goldfields.

Things are bud, from a businew point of view m Coolßardie -but you hay" to pay a shilling for a drink. A correspondent writes to the Christchurch Press » 1 am sorry to say business is very bad here, and *vert body la complaining bit teriy It appear* tha' all the .carrier! that bnn.- -he st.res h-o Uli h hold au.'tio. neers hce .mm. and they »ell the eood* at the -arafl pr.c* «• tnev do at Perth and Froemaotl*. Y<>o «cc all the storekeeper* 8m >ki i«r tbe ir pipes l"ok>ng"n. There are one hundred storekeepers, twenty tobacconist-*, fiv* auctioneers, five hotels, throe cbemuts, and. lots of coffee and supper stores. There are no shops to let. .Persons hare to build if they want business premises. Water is very scarce ; in fact they predxt a water famine, and if that is the case, thp place will be deserted With all ih°«" drawbacks, I have decided to return. It is a fearful clim.ite. It is just us bad as the north of Queensland and eyervthing w very expensive. They charge £4 per week, in the hotels, and the food is not fi» to eat ; 1 * for a wash, and 7s 6d for a bath, and washing is 12s per dozen." A young fellow of some private means, who cleared out for Coolfrardie tho other day said, " Well, it isn't that I want to go there so much as to get away from this country where I an neither allowed to snake money nor to keep it if I do. 1 '