THE LATEST FROM KLONDYKE.
•Mr Kelsey, a Queensland landholder, ™o was a passenger from Vancouver by the gives a doleful account of his extir<. c? Ces of the Klondyke rush. He says im before he left there were 5,000 people "•Uawson City, trying to get back, buc C.re u,naWe to do so. Very little gold was jj»g brought down from Klondyke. At a»j S oment the Aorai,gi from Australia *»<»N ?w Zealand terthed at the wharf at /ftona, 8.C., with 100 gold-seekers on W'j c steamer City of Seattle was "erthed near by full of returning diggers, I % W* iQ all, coining back disgusted. P y.ere is no chance of starting business at 'tcoria. The markets are already glutted Xl #°. otls suited to the requirements of in? r ker8 ' while ihe labour market is for & th overflowin S- The gold product litn present season has so far been "We or notliing at all.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1898, Page 3
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