THE KIMBERLEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 4

THE KIMBERLEY.

fCanterbity Press Correspondent.) (Per B.<i. Manapouri at the Blnff.) Melbourne, Tuesday. . The steamer Otway arrived at Cossack from Derby on Saturday, A correspondent of the Forth Inquirer at Derby reports that more men have come down from the diggings, among them being Messes Kellan and Edwards. They have about 200 ounces. They left about twenty men on the fields, but- a large number are on the way up. About 1250 ounces of gold have beeu brought down up to the present. Water is getting scarce at the fields, and no more men should go up before September, .) Hall has brought to Cossack a 28-ouuce nugget be discovered some time ago. He estimates that it contains 24 ounces of pure gold,and is a splendid specimen. Derby is described as a mass of tents, 106 passengers having arrived by one steamer. A large quantity of gold is reported to be on board tho Otway, but it is impossible to say how much. The sum of £150 por ton is demanded for carting from Derby to the goldfields, Hearing that news about the goldfields had recently arrived m this city from an'-Ax-Canterlwry man, a Press representative on Saturday interviewed the recipient, who is a well-known resi dent of Christchiirch. This gentleman stated that the repoH was correct, his bou having written to him from Derby a very favorable account of his pros pects.' Wlieo the rush be?an he had been about 900 miles up country from Sydney. He had at once moved to Brisbane, and thence taken boat foi Derby, where he is now doing so .well that be strongly recommended his father to sell out his Christchurch business and join him. He was not digging but working at carpentry, which was his trade. The edge of the coast he described as humid and moist, but at a little distance inland the climate was very good, and he m fact preferred it totbat of New Zealand. The nights were piercingly cold, but the tempera* ture rose the moment the sun got up. The grass was high tor about 50 miles inland; then the country broke into rising terraces, and the climate was iraproved greatly. After this land was good for driving over for a disiance of ' 800 miles, at the end of which it became rough. Things were dear at Derby, but to counterbalance this money vas abundant, and " there seethed to be plenty of gold knocking about."