KIMBERLEY.
The few patient men who waited at the Kimberley goldfields when the others ran away disgusted, seem, according to latest accounts, to have proved that there is an extensive goldfield there, after all. Beefs have been opened out, which, if anywhere near to Sydney or Melbourne, would cause immense excitement and create a rush. But just at the present time the news falls flat. When Kimberley was first spoken of as a likely place, mining was rather dull •verywhere, and mining adventurers were eating their hearts out. But latterly there has been quite a revival of mining excitement nearer home. Not only bare great fortunes been realised at Mount Morgan and Silver-' ton, but a vast number of new mines have been started. Many of these, of course, will prove failures except to the promoters; but so long as there is a chance of making a fortune nearer home, people will not take all the long journey to the unsettled country of North West Australia, and then plunge two hundred and fifty miles into the bush in search of a fortune. Kimberley, therefore, will have to wait for the present; but it is something to know that an extensive goldfield is really there, because it assures a certain development to that part of the colony. As a goldfield will collect a certain number of people; it is an additional stimulant to the pastoral occupation of the country, and that kind of occupation has just now some charm to pastoralists who are broken-hearted at the new rents and assessments, which the older colony imposes. . Men who still remember the old-fashioned style of squatting, and who like it better than the new style, are just now under strong inducements to go away into a new country, where, for a term of years, rents will be light, and selectors few. What, therefore, with the combined attractions of gold and squatting, North Western Australia may forge steadily ahead; and if it does, the new young colony will be a valuable ballast to the old settlement, and help to complete the occupation of our island continent.—Sydney Mail,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1676, 22 December 1887, Page 3
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