PROVINCIAL NEWS
— 'UNITED I‘KI'SS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, October 19. The election of a member for Dunedin Central was declared as follows : Bracken ... ... 501 Hutchison ... ... 255 Chapmani ... ... 80 Darling ... ... 3 Informal ... ... 8 LATEST FROM KIMBERLEY. Wellington, October 19. TJnfi ■vourable reports of (ho Kimberley goldfield still continue to be published, and the Evening Post tonight publishes a letter from D. M’Grath to a Wellington friend, from
which the following is an extract:— “ There are men in scores starving, and no prospect but to starve. There is no gold getting, and they hare no money, so there is nothing for them but to starve right out. What with flies and snakes, and blacks and ants, and the heat, life is a misery to man. No matter what kind of reports are in the paper, don't ever come here. If you do, you will be sorry for coming.’'
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Kumara Times, Issue 3109, 20 October 1886, Page 2
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