KIMBERLEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2343, 10 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

KIMBERLEY.

By the last mail one of the Daily Telegraph staff received a letter from his brother in Sydney, in which the writer thus refers to Kimberley : "Yousay there are a lot of people going from New Zealand to Kimberley, They don't know where they aregoins; to, or they would stay where they are.

I was down at the steamer on Monday, the 7th June, and many of the ing passengers were trying to sell their tickets at two pounds less than what they had given for them, Horses and men are dying every day on the road. It is over 900 miles from where.l- was in Queensland, You can't go from Sydney with less than £l5O. You want to take with you five horses—two for -riding, and you must. take six months' provisions as well as horse feed; for after you leave the atoamer yon have to go 400 miles through, swampy county. You want any amount of ammunition and a revolver, for there are a lot of blacks up there The heat is 140 in the shade. I was talking to Jack Allen, the nigger that found the big nugget at 'femora, He went iip to Kimberley hut soon came hack ; he sold his claim at 'femora for .£2OO, and if Kimherloy-was any good he would have stayed thnre. The water to drink is stagnant, so God help the men that go unprovided with plenty of money and horses, If you hear of anyone going, tell thrni to wait till the road and the country opened up a bit. It will lie plenty of time to go at Christmas, us it is a gold-hearing country for a radius of 120 miles. There was a chap wanted me to go, and only for Allen I would have gon.i. Kit turns out any good, I may try it by-and-by There is plenty of fever and ague, and men are dying like rotten sheep. There are many good men and experienced miners there."