KIMBERLEY GOLD RUSH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2283, 30 April 1886, Page 2

KIMBERLEY GOLD RUSH.

', The following are extracts from the Age re thoKimberly gold rush;—At present attention is mainly devoted to tracing the'alluvial deposit on the Ord River. TheOrd'empties itself into Cambridge Gulf; Derby is.the capital town of the" Kimberly-district on the north-west coast. Jt is built at 'the mouth of the Fitzroy, River, in King Sound. The 'i present population of.Dorby is under 100. ; At Perth news recoived from Kimberly - > regarding tho eold-fieldsjrf .* ' state that good progress* UK ma j o by prospectors. On Gcj. ernor received the following 'teleg& ■' from the Government Receiver at' Derby: —"I have-great pleasure in informing • your Excellency that most favorable report* have reached Derby from the goldfields. Five parlies" are down, all bringing alluvial goldsome more,, some less. Thero are now ovor 400oz, in the town. Professional diggers Bpeak highly of the field, and predict one of tho biggest rushes that has been seon for years; they also predict * reefing as a tuturo certainty. The field ib extensive." Tho receipt of this new» in Perth, created great excitement, and our correspondent telegraphed yesterday ' that a number of people intend to proceed to Kimberly immediately. The barque Wistaria has been placed on berth at Fremantle to convey intending pas. sengcrs to the goldfields. The local paper atPorth published yesterday a telegram from W. Mather; dated Freman%, Bth, as follows:—" Forly-two outfft was > obtained in one day by two Kimberly goldfields; GBQfcwf sold are - reported to bo iii tho hahcWpf the digger* including a 19oz nugget found in shallow sinkimv The prospecting party, who brought the gold into Derby, came into Fremantle for provisions, leaving fifty mon working on the goldfields when they left. It was reported that'the gold ' was found very near the surface, There is every promise of a great goldfield. Heavy tropicalrains had fallen recently whore the party was working. The 1!) ob nugget is on the way fo Fremantle. Another parcel of gold; containing 6002, is coming in the steamer Qtway." details published from Cossack, which is the principal port in the north district, state that Carlisle's party returned intwo divisions. The first batch of four men brought 3boz, and the second batch a smaller quantity. M'Dermott's: party brought lOoz, and Kellan, fromPort Darwin, 24dz.' -Kellan left his mate doing very well. Edgar and two others brought Bfjoz botwe'eri them. Moore and Morrison aro reported' to be doing very well indeed, and Hall and'Slattery fairly. When the prospectors returned to the gold-fields in October last, the party Bplit up into two divisions, one going** the creek, where they had ■> obSJfd the first gold. They found it full' of water,-and thoy could not work. But they afterwards returned to it, and are said to have got (iOoz. Those are all men from the Cambridge Gulf, and they say that the road thence to the diggings is rough and waterless in the dry season. Malet, who returned to Derby on the Bth March, reports that he found a good dray road to the fields. Old miners mge that no one should come without six months' provisions and. horses, or plenty of money. The diggings are 370 miles away from Cambridge Gulf, and great miseiy would ensue if the prospectors were not properly equipped. Twenty men have come to Derby apparently for supplies, and there ' are about fifty left on the diggings. Our telegram states further that men from Queensland and Port Darwin are leaving every day for the diggings. The alluvial gold is reported to he " much scattered," which probably means that the workings so far havo been patchy. 'Our telegram adds " reefs promising for the futuro," and, doubtless, moro will soon be heard of them. The blacks are apparently disposed to resent the. encroaohmont of the white man, as it is reported that two horses belonging to diggers' havo beon speared by the natives 'at.. Cambridge Gulf -" ilfel