MORE ABOUT COOLGARDIE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4854, 18 October 1894, Page 2

MORE ABOUT COOLGARDIE.

With reference to the gloomy view of Coolgardio expressed in some notes in yesterday a issue, says the Hawko's Bay Herald, we have been shown a letter, • dated September 16th, which tells a different story. It is from & Mr Crowe, who is known in Napier, and-was formerlyemployed at the .Napier gas works. Mr Crowo says, inter alias' I liavp found no big nuggets yet, You cannot make your fortune in five minutes, but we have got gold every day since, wo started, We have just took an ounce to the bank for six days' work. I only had one seivo all the while. . . , This is us fine a place as one could wish tolive in. It is all light bush right up from Perth, and you can live very cheaply. Flour is 14s per pOll) bag, at the sales it is sold for 12s; jam is Is 3d the 21b tin, candles Is per lb, sugar 6d, rice sd; oatmeal is 2s 3d per 71b bag, and bacon Is 2d per lb, milk 9d per tin, and tinned meat 9d per lb.. It costs nothing for rent and firewood, Tlio alluyial is yeiy extensive ijbout here, Sqtp pf the mon are doing yovy well, One mp and his three sons who came up with us made over £2O among them last week, One of their nuggets weighed over four ounces. It is a very uncertain thing on the diggings, but tho field is no duffer, anyhow. I believe there will be many more finds yet, but tho country is so hard to prospect. I had the offer of a job in one of the mines last week, and I beliove I ought to have taken it—£3 a week and water found, The climate is first-class, pretty warm through the day, but generally a cool breeze blowing, and as sqqii a, 3 the sun goes down it gets quite cool, Men are cpming and going daily," In a loiter from Coolgarfie to the Wellington Press, a correspondent wfifes'tjiat (ihp p, and 0, Company j are charging £lO salooji frojn Melbourne to Albany, first class, the trip taking about a week, The train fare frotn Albany to Perth, first single, is £2l7s, from Perth tp Southern Cross, rail £216,5, coach to tho field, or to tko edge of the field, $5 single and £9 return, " Water is, of course, the groat want, Many mon aro lying over until the summer is past, declaring it is not good enough to perish up there, If wo have no rain at the end of October few, if any, will be left at Coolgardie proper." Another correspondent writes:-. " There are one handled storekeepers, twenty tobacconists, five auctioneers, fivo hotels, three chemists, and lots of coffee and supper stores at Coolgardie. There are no shops to let. • Persons have to build if they want business ' premises. Water is very scarce; in fact, they predict ft water faniine,atid if that is tho case, the place will be deserted, With all these drawbacks, I have decided to return, It is a fearful climate, It. is just as bad as tjio nprtU of Queenslaiid sini ey'efy tliingis very expensive; Tfioy" pharg&"s4'per flreef'jn {pie hotels, and flie fopd'is not fit tp eaji; Is for awash, 7s fid'for a bath, and washing is 12s per dozen. A shilling is charged for a drink. I have been trying to do some business, but there is no money in theplace, Tliero are about two thousand people here not earning anything,"