THE QUEENSLAND DIGGINGS.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 348, 7 April 1868, Page 3

THE QUEENSLAND DIGGINGS.

IMPORTANT OFFICIAL WARNING. We are indebted to a Sydney paper of the 23rd ultimo for the following official telegrams regarding the Gympio Creek and Kolan diggings :— Telegram from the Honorable Colonial Secretary, Queensland, to the Honorable Colonial Secretary, Sydney. " Brisbane, 21st March, 1868. " The rush now taking place from Sydney and other places to the Gympie and Kolan diggings is a very senseless one. So far as this Government are aware, Gympie is a good permanent diggings for a limited number, but is more than fully occupied. The Acting Commissioner reports mo >t unfavorably of the Kolan, and predicts great want and destitution among t'.ie hundreds now rushing there." Telegram fro.n the Honorable Colonial Secretary, Queensland, to the Honorable Colonial Secretary, Sydney. "Brisbane, 23rd March, 1868. " The rush to the diggings recently reported in the vicinity of Gayndah is quite unwarranted ; and I would ask you to give publicity to the fact that neither at Gympie Creek nor elsewhere in this colony are the yields such as to justify the expectation of certain success. No doubt much gold has been taken out. Some few have made money, but an immensely large proportion of the people have been losers by throwing up certain employment to swell the number of diggers. The thing has been greatly over done, aud I would wish, to caution people not to be too sanguine of success at any of our gold fields. Time and enterpri le may develop richer fields. There is already a larger population than the gold field can mainlain."

Brigham Young, according to the ' Salt Lake Vidette,' is for marriage at a tremendous rate. He wants all the, young women married off instanter, and wants all the young men in Zion to marry them ; and he openly threatened if the young men failed to do the job, that he and the bishops and the elders would take the matter in hand and marry them all themselves. Marrying for love was played out ; that old-fashioned way of getting married was exploded. It wouldn't do here, because if a young man allowed himself to love a young girl, and then married her, the dickens usually was to pay when he wanted to take a second wife. She had his heart, and it was impossible to divide the affections with two or more wives. But he insisted that the young men, as a duty — a religious duty— should go in for the young women and marry them all off. They were instructed also to marry them by couples, and pairs, and triplets ;to quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple, if they could support them. The only consideration for a prudent young man was to inquire how many wives could he support. The young women also were ordered to marry whenever a young man, a saint, went for them, and to become mothers in Israel,