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[united press association.! THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD. Wellington, October 15. The EveniDg Post tonight publishes a letter received in Wellington from a digger at Kimberley, from which the following IP extracted :—" lam now on what they call the Kimberley goldfields. I don't know whatever caused a rush here; there has not been one man cleared his expenses yet. There ate about 3000 men here now, and I can conSdently say there is not one man making wages. Men are clearing in hundreds every day, and more are not able to go. This rnsh will turn out tc be the greatest duffer that was ever in the colonies. If it were in a place that there was any communication with the other colonies, there would have been, no rush here at all, but it is such an out of the way place that men could not send word back to stop the rush until the harm was done. Another report is that gold can be got if there waa water; now that is false also. There is no gold here to pay if they had the Mississippi on it."
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Kumara Times, Issue 3106, 16 October 1886, Page 2
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