Western Australia.

Manawatu Herald, 24 June 1893, Page 2

Western Australia.

The new^trom Perth that specimens of gold weighing upwards of 8000 oufteefl have been bought from

Coolgardie and that it .is believed the field will be one of the richest in Australia, has led us to look up some information about this much misnamed place. We may at onoe say that we have been unsuccessful though we have inspected the generally very accurate and minute maps Supplied with the Picturesque Atlas. It would appear to be a new field, not far from the capital city. The fields known as Kiinberley, situate in the north of the colony have been known and worked for some years. The rush took place in 1885 but owing to the aUnvial diggings being soon worked out, and water being scarce in the summer, the field did not induce a very large number to remain. Yet the miners who applied themselves to reefing have done well. The Kimberley district is divide'd into an east and a west portion, but it has no connection with the mountains known as the Kimberley range which lie almost in the centre of the colony, that is between north and south, and at the head of the watershed of the Murchison river. Though prospecting has been going on in the ranges inland from the coast line there has not been until now any payable gold field found south of the Kimberley's. Gold has been found in the Barling ranges not far from the banks of the Swan and Canning rivers, and at Yulgan hills, to the eastward of Newcastle which is distant some sixty miles from Perth. It would appear as though " Coolgardie " was in this locality.