LATER FROM KIMBERLEY.

Kumara Times, Issue 3054, 17 August 1886, Page 3

LATER FROM KIMBERLEY.

A telegram from Perth, Western Australia, gives the following report on the new diggings from the Government Resident at Derby : “ Derby, July 26. “ Sergeant Troy reached Derby, from the goldfields, on the 12th instant. He found all well. His report is favorable All the diggers are getting gold. He took statements in writing from 18 of them, and the following are some brief extracts from a few :—No. 1. Have been a digger for 30 years, and believe there is an extensive field here; have found gold in various localities. No. 2, with his party, got about 70 ounces, No. 7 got about half an ounce a day at Brockman, and Hall’s Creek ; was doing well in Macphus Gully; believes the gold-bearing country to be of large extent. The water supply is pretty good. No. 10 had made a second visit: all who had worked in Hall’s Gully had done well; he thinks they are only on the beginning or tail-end of the field. No. 17 was getting about a quarter of an ounce daily, but does not include odd nuggets found; he thinks gold will be found on the hills as well as in the gullies. On his second, visit he found payable gold at the Margaret River and in the Macphus gully; he went out one afternoon and got 26dwl; he is averaging a little over loz. daily : he thinks that in future the reefs will prove a prolific source of gold ; he considers the supply of water good. Sergeant Troy himself does not consider the fields badly watered. There are good streams in the rivers, and also permanent water in several of the gullies besides. There are also excellent springs. He found the road very good from Derby to the fields, but states that as the season advances water will not be so plentiful. On the return trip he met Bateson, 95 miles from Macphus Gully, with a waggonette and a number of pack-horses; 10 miles behind Bateson he began to meet drays, and soon found that he bad a well-beaten track to follow home. In all be met 21 horse-drays, seven bullock-drays and waggons, 100 pack-horses, three waggonettes, three spring carts, nine hand carts, and 16 wheelbarrows; and he states that they were all getting along very well. Sergeant Troy states in his report that he has confined himself strietly to trustworthy information, and he is of opinion that it is a valuable and thoroughly reliable statement of what is going on at the goldfields.” July 28. News has reached here that teams from Derby arrived safely on the fields. A very considerable amount of gold is in the bands of the diggers. The steamship Triumph, from New Zealand, with 250 passengers and 144 horses, arrived on the 23rd. The water supply at Derby for stock and drinking purposes is inexhanstable. Camels for transport to the fields have arrived, and they start on the first trip in a few days. [From the Sydney Herald.] Cooktown, August 3. The steamer Hero has arrived here from Cambridge Gulf. The Hero brings 24 passengers for Sydney from Cambridge Gulf. The steamer Port Darwin had left Cambridge Gulf for Singapore. The Hero brings news that Inspector Hare, the New Government Resident at Wyndhara, arrived at Cambridge Gulf on July 20th by the mail steamer Otway. Sergeant Troy is of opinion that the diggers are withholding the fullest information, but all there are getting gold. Several diggers arrived at Cambridge Gulf from the goldfields, via O’Donnell’s route. Tho gold being got was of good quality. The country was blue slate, and there were lots of good looking quartz reefs. The diggers are all returning from Wyndham with rations to the goldfields. On the 22nd an employee on Stackdale station, close to Cambridge Gulf, gave information that he bad seen a digger with two natives and eight pack horses, and with £I6OO •worth of gold in his possession. He would not give information where he procured the gold, but the locality was not at the present diggings. Stores at the diggings are at fabulous prices, but at Cambridge Qulf supplies are plentiful,

UNFAVOURABLE ACCOUNTS BY RETURNED DIGGERS. [From to-day’s Argus.] Mr Malcolm Graham, late of Orwell Creek, and who left here some time ago for the Kimberley rush, finding upon his arrival at Sydney that the accounts from the diggings were not of a very encouraging nature, made up his mind to remain there until the proper season had arrived, or authentic news for good or bad was received. Yesterday be sent a cable message to the Argus Office to the effect that Mr Lennon W. Garrod and Mr John Boswell, both of whom had left Orwell Cieek for Kimberley amongst the first from the West Coast, had just returned that day from Derby to Sydney, and both gave a most deplorable account of the state of things in the Kimberley district, and the prospect before miners now there and going there. As Mr Graham is a man whose statement can be relied upon implicitly, and as there is no reason to doubt the statement of his old friends Boswell and Garrod, West Coast miners thinking of hieing off to Kimberley would do well to possess themselves in patience for a little while longer. Evidently “ all is not gold that glitters ” at Kimberley.