A LETTER FROM COOLGARDIE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4853, 17 October 1894, Page 2

A LETTER FROM COOLGARDIE.

Tho following received by a Pal- $s meruton resident appealed in a re- ' \ cent issue of tho Manawatii Daily *

Harmons, ' § 23rd Sept ,1894 I Dear Jim,-I just write')on these " | few lines to let you.know that wo 't% arrived hero quite safe, but we don't j£ think much of it nowwoarchere,for *I there seems to bo no gold We did not J$ go to Porth,but from wliatl havobeen J^ told it is like the rest of the places, it Is has abW six times the quantity of 3? tradesmen as can make a h\ ing, so I would not advise you to think of going 1 to Perth, We have only Been the color j^j about twice,andwhen wo didsomeone j^ else owned it,kt we avegoing tomnko T » astartinthemomingto sceif nohavo fj\ oinyluck. Some of the others seem to begetting a little - just aboutenongh ' $ to keep them out of debt Water is *£ the main trouble here, for wo have to J? pay from 4d to. Is a gallon, it rises 'j, and falls pretty nearly CTeiy day. t' Well, to give you, an idea of the » country, it is too dry forsakes to live in; we have walkeaHO miles

and wo have not seen ono, and for ; 300 miles we bavo not seen a blade of grass, and you could ride a bicj clo through the bush, for the formation ' is all a red sand and something liko [asphalt to walk on till rt has been I carted on forawhile,aud then thero's .^ a foot of dust. We get a wash once a ' ; v : |

fortnight and that is a very dry ono —that is a wipe on the towel, We are very fresh at present for we ,"> have just had oue. Now we would not mind. suffering it if thore was anything to be got, but tliere is only "". ,- one out of every thousand jthat is doing anything at all, There are thousands of men here that would work for thirty shillings a Week only '■', for blacklegging, Tliere aro hundreds coming every day and hundreds going. Now, Jim, whatever you do take no notice of.the papers,for whatever you see in them is nothing , but a pack of lies, because if there is a fivo ounce nugget picked up anywhere about by the time tho Coolgardio paper is printed-it is a forty ounco nugget, and by the time it reaches New Zealand it is seventy. So believe me what Imy — to be true, There is a new rusiiV" ■ i every day but they are only ■ i keepers'rushes got up ■ for ■ tire oc- IJ™ I casion. Well, I think I have told ?•< I you allso I must now bring my letter to a close, hoping to find yon qnito r well as it leaves us at-present,—l i am, etc., W, P. Ross. •-.'' : "