Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Coolgardie — what a name for such a hot place ! It appears however to be the place of life and movement for some years. " Just a year ago to-day" as the song has it, fllty persons made up the whole of the population of the district, to-day, the town is said to contain 10,000 inhabitants. Men go there to stay, an hotelkeeper having erected a building of over 100 rooms, of brick. Other buildings are also being built of the same substantial character. About a fortnight ago the Coolgardia Stock Exchange was opened with a banquet, and 100 gentlemen representing the leading interests in the colonies assembled to celebrate the occasion. Earl Fingall, responding to the toast " The Coolgardie Stock Exchange," said that the field was already one of the wonders of the world, the phenomenal finds at tracting world-wide attention, and Coolgardie was destined to become one of the greatest mining centres in the world. The stories of the lucky diggers are very captivating, but a man had best look before he leaps. It is not every one who strikes a patch. Take a map of the world and note the spots in Victoria and West Australia where gold has be in found, then run the finger along to the left to Africa and it will take you in a straight lino to other gold and diamond mines. If people get this idea properly fixed we might try a claim under the deep deep, sea.