THE CAPE GOLD FIELDS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 3

THE CAPE GOLD FIELDS.

From the “Cape Times” of July Ist we extract the following:—That Australia should contribute towards the populating of South Africa is a singular episode in the history of our colony. The Northumberland, which arrived in Table Bay yesterday, brings over 100 passengers who have come from Australia to try their fortunes at the Cape. They are mostly gold-diggers who, finding gold-digging in Australia not so remunerative to the poor man as in the days of old, have been led to come to the Capo by the news that goldfields have been discovered here. We do not know on what representations they were induced to come to South Africa, but a passenger by the Northumberland assures us that they are of a class who make capital colonists, for they sure prepared to do other work besides gold-digging. We trust that this is so, for if these people were gold-diggers, and nothing else, they are likely to be disappointed on their arrival. We may tell them that up to the present time the goldfields of South Africa have not been a success. A few persona have managed to live at Pilgrim's Beat, in the Transvaal, and there is a confident belief of paying goldfields existing in this land ; but they have yet to be discovered. There is, however, the satisfaction of knowing that any man of industrious and steady habits can at all times make more than his living at the Cape of Good Hope.