KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2420, 8 October 1886, Page 2

KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD.

O'DONNKLL, THE EXPLORER, RE. PORTED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT.

The Sydney Morning Herald correspondent at Cossack, Western Australia, telegraphed on the 27th that tho steamer Otway had arrived from Dorby, bringing about 40 disappointed diggers. He says that tho rumor that Mr O'Donuell had been shot at by onraged diggers is confirmed. Many of those on the field are sufforing from scurvy, and tho best reports are that some o.f the diggei# aw doing fairly well. The. captain Alhe Otway says that it is authentic information about the diegings, but he himself thinks that they are a complete failure, and will enrich none, but will prove disastrous to thousands. Tho rains, which are eagerly awaited, will bring sickness and death, and. May next will be ample time to \wo forthe diggings if they proved payable. The Sydney Morning' Herald has received a telegram from Mr J. T. K. Colin, dated Coppee's Gully, Kimberley goldfields, August 12th, which states that the dig'ings are a comparative failure, one pennyweight per day being considered a good find, and hundreds not making that. Numbers are leaving daily. There are about 800 on the field, who aro suffering groat hardship and misery now, and starvation must ensue. Some of the fineot class of men and the moat complete outfits over seen aro on the ground, no expense having boen spared at Derby, Thfl Darby storekeeper cleared out, otherwise hit) life would have paid the penalty of his false reports.