NEWS FROM KIMBERLEY.
Perth, October 22. More encouraging news has been received from Kimberley goldfields. The following telegram whs received last night by the Colonial Secretary from . Mr Hare, Government Resident at '-’-Wyndham, dated October Utb, and
despatched via Port Darwin:—“Tweed, an old Queensland digger, brings news that a 40oz. nugget has been found at the Kimberley goldfields. He reports that the diggers are getting mote gold than is generally supposed, and £SOO worth of gold was brought in last Saturday. Tweed also brings information that gold has been struck on the Panton River. Diggers are constantly coming in and loading np for the wet season. Prospecting parties have gone up the Ord Forest and King Rivers, A lode, supposed to be of cinnabar, 300 feet wide, has been discovered. Later reports are very encouraging. A party of men have found gold six and nine miles from Wyndham, but not as yet in payable quantities. The country is being well prospected. Carr Boyd has brought in llcwt. of magnificent quartz, in which gold is plainly visible. The reef is about 220 miles from Wyndham.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 3122, 4 November 1886, Page 3
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