ANOTHER ACCOUNT FROM KIMBERLEY.
The special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes concerning Kimberley :—" There are now about 1500 men on the ground working with varied results. A few are doing well, some making tucker, and, I am afraid, mmy the reverse. However, we know of one man having obtained 260 ozs. in six weeks, and another 200 ozs. or mure. lam assured that 5000 ozs. left Cambridge Gulf in one month, while, perhaps, as many hundreds of ounces have come through Derby. Information by way of Port Darwin is to the effect that the stone in the reefs appears to be rich, and that from one place is estimated to yield 40 ozs. to the ton. Anthony Johnson, a digger from Queensland, was murdered in the vicinity of Hall's Gully on the 21st October. His mate, Frank Hoonig, a German, disappeared with five packhorses and £3OO. A man named John Durack was spearsd by the blacks, his body being found riddled wiih spears."
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Kumara Times, Issue 3160, 20 December 1886, Page 3
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