An Extraordinary Gold Yarn.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 191, 12 February 1895, Page 2

An Extraordinary Gold Yarn.

(Per Press Association.) Perth, This Day. An astonishing story, combining all the elements of a first-class romance, including the discovery of a mountain of gold and a great slaughter of the natives, has been published. The scene is laid somewhere beyond the ninety mile- Two prospectors, named Michael Fitzgerald and Wm. Paray, have been arrested in Sydney since the story came out. The story told by their mates is that a syndicate of eight was formed for the purpose of prospecting, six of whom went out in December last and camped at Fresh Water Hole, on the road to Mt. Margaret. Fitzgerald, whilst engaged in tracking the camels which had wandered away, entered a patch of dense forest in which he caught sight of an immense outcrop of quartz. Every boulder showed gold. The hill, which is 15 feet wide at the summit, is 250 feet long, and 70 feet in height, and is described as full of gold. In other outcrop the casing also contains rich gold. Later information, however, tones down these glowing accounts, and says the quartz is nice battery stone, but not sensationally rich. During the adsence of the prospectors at the find the blacks raided their camp. A man named Robertson, who joined them in pursuing the natives, states that the latter were slaughtered wholesale without regard to age or sex. Infants taken from their mothers aud their brains dashed out on the rocks and innumerable outrages were perpetrated on the women.