Goldfields Troubles.
St. Petersburg, July 8. Extensive gold fields have been discovered in Eastern Siberin, bordering on Manchuria, which are attracting great numbers of adventurers. In the Chingan Mountains already has begun a strong influx of the worst elements in the country, mostly convicts or their descendants, who have been wandering about in an aimless, shiftless way for fear of the police. Many Chinese, men and women, of Kirghiz, and other natives have reached the camp and the scenes daily and nightly witnessed aro appalling. Murders are of almost daily occurrence. No man can call anything his own. The Russian Governor of the Amur district has started for tho gold fields with a strong force of Cossacks, but it is expected that the half-civilized settlers will not allow themselves to he deprived of their privileges without a struggle.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 493, 4 August 1902, Page 1
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