The Kimberley Diggings.
AN OLD MINER'S WABNING.
An old miner, who knows the Kimberley country well, and who is m posaestion of recent information, has supplied the Lyttelton Times with the following V—At Derby, which will be the port town, lots «r« rapidly increasing m value. Food of all sorts is very dear. Flour is lO^d per lb. Numbers of people are down with fever and ague, thY rains hnving been very heavy. There is no use taking New Zealand timber for houses over there, on account of the white ant. Our iuforraant adds that be was the only one out of a party of seventeen who were there last year that escaped the fever and ague.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1727, 7 June 1886, Page 3
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117The Kimberley Diggings. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1727, 7 June 1886, Page 3
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