THE KIMBERLEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1730, 10 June 1886, Page 2

THE KIMBERLEY.

Mr J. Sutherland, of Napier, makes the following sensible suggestion m the Herald :— Having had considerable experience m Queensland, I consider the beet way to obtain reliable information is tor all business men to form a company,and send four trustworthy men to ' Kiruberley, as there is every probability of rich gold-bearing reefs being dis covered." Fully twenty men m Woodville and district intend to try their luck, [•' Puff" m the B /eninjr Press.] A thousand diggers on the rampage to Kimberley ! There'll be fifty thousand before long 1 Any amount of gold for all hands 1 Regular Tora Tiddler's ground I How about alligators, and snakes, and scorpions, and centipedes, and ants, and mosquitoes, and flies, and fleas, and bs, and bottle-brush tailed rats, and blackfellows, and other interesting local features ? Oh, if there's plenty of gold, the diggers will make short work of trifling drawbacks like these ! " I'm not so sure of that ! Lord, Gifford said he travelled through a place m Africa where nuggets of gold lay on the surface life spuds m a newly-dug potatoe field 1 But the climate and the varmint were so bad that it would'nt pay to go for it. Lord Gifford said that, did he ? Yes, m one of his hooks ! I suppose a lord would 'n't tell a lift about a little thing, like that, would he? No, certainly not! His Lordship's veracity is strictly to be depended on ! Was there anybody with him whan he came across those spuds ? Oh yes, hi? Lordship was accompanied by a numerous retinue, but they all succumbed to the fatigues and dangers of the jours ey I He waß the sole survivor ! Ah, I thought so ! No one to contradict him ! Well, I don't think that yarn . would prevent me going to Kimberley, if I had a yearning to go and weighed half a ton less than I do 1 No, I don't suppose any amount of warning will prevent a rush to a place where 5 ounce nuggets are lying about loose 1 It's pretty warm up there, is'n't it? Yes, but they'll soon get any number of Chinamen and Indians to do the hard work ! Oh, they're going to let Chinamen , come, are they ?. ; Can't do without 'em, sonny! It is'n't a white man's country 1 If the goldfield turns out right, it'll probably be the means of settling the whole of tropical Australia by means of Coolie labour 1 Make it a sort of India 1. The climate is described as being hot from the beginning of April to the middle of May. From the middle of May to the middle of August it is pleasant. In September it becomes unpleasantly warm, and near the coast especially where it Is low-lying, malarial . fever may be expected to. prevail. The (dry) healthy season last for four months the. (wet) unhealthy season for the other eight. An old sailor describes tha climate of Cambridge Gulf as being awful, m fact the worst m Australia. He says that the mosquitoes will simply eat the new chums alive, and that ten out of every twenty horses will die. It will take at least twelve months for both men and horses to get acclimatised. A surveyor whe has travelled over the road 'lost eleven horses out of 41 landed, and says that natives are very numerous on the shores of Cambridge Gulf. At a meeting at Christchuich on May 27th, it was stated th&t Mr C. W. Turner had agraed to put on the s.s. Triumph, to sail m about a month's time. The ratest of passage had been fixed at £21 saloon, £14 steerage, and £10 per horse (owner to find fodder). Mr Turner had expressed his intention of bookiug first one horse per man, and, if space allowed after th« complement of passengers wan full, then passengers wanting