THE SUD-EST GOLDFIELD.
The Curlew, with ten passengers, and the Lucy and Adelaide, with fifteen, arrived at Cooktown last Wednesday from Sud-Est. The continued rain at St. Aignan has caused much fever, and many deaths have resulted. A prospecting party returned from Rossell; only colours were obtained. St. Aignan is worked out where available for mining. Sud-Est is more healthy. Gold is * still being got. On the last trip oi the Curlew, on the 24th May, after tea, James Oliver, who for several days had shown signs of madness, cut the throat of Thomas Hanrahan, a Croydon miner, his mate, inflicting a deep gash 4 inches long, but under the chin and high up. Oliver refused to surrender the knife, jumped overboard and was drowned. The vessel was under double reefs at the time, and ifa was impossible to lower a boat.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 151, 27 June 1889, Page 5
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