GERMAN DIAMONDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5

GERMAN DIAMONDS.

HeTATE WILL! CONTROtCTH E SALE, Berlln/i^liiiary '29/;;: ■-'!; ,In ;. : ,cpnieq|kioi' jwith. tne. discovery jjji, ;diai jrionds-in.tho.neigbbpu'rh6od ; of tuderitz Bay, >, German; imperial de-. 'vcrw^basvbGen/assu^ ■>""monda 'if ound'' [ in'; Sotvth-Tvest; Africa ''in'ust; be handed:.toi.ihe■-oolpnial authorities '. v deduct 6ne-;third : pf-the ipriq^;Bß.;ftt«si:-j^ • trading .expenses '\ r to the mining'companieslcThe'diam'onds'may : Ibe'withheld , !foini'sak ,tp" prevent :^'it(;ia; -s.tated'r: : maiket /will 1: ; shortly'?bejestablished "lnlßerlin, with v Germari .vv-*:-T ; ';?x /■,■'';■ ■'■■K~,-J. : i" :■:".. :;H^T;:fro^=the:arabia'n^ : ;V'l'ihe!^nnan-.;dbloiuUi_SeoretMK"' i^rr-''Derai , ■ burg, f commuriVcated V, V to": '', the ; •':■ Keichstas . last ■runontKthe:gistVof oflicialrepbrts.withrregard■.to v the'alscbverier of ;diaffl6nas; ini thevneiglibou>7 "■ : £dod of l Luderitz'-Bay.-r^Diiunondß\vrere.present ■ihii ■; about) '40.' kilometres -loas ■'"•'. and from • feeveral' hundreds of kilometres Abroad. , .-.;: diamonds .had .been, .foil jl • only near .-the-surface; .^Ordinarily. four, or fivq Btone's .we'nt'f.o : tlie qirat^'but'stonis-bf;on'e-haif ■-'. to three-quarters' of 'a oarat bad-been discovered . tecently.i'i'A.'Gernjan'.firm'had'.beeii.winningloo : :cWafa!a!day'by-/prinjitive-;nieth.od3V ;With,;im-. ■'■' proved -,arrangements: the - production;.cou^d ; ,be : lnoiease'd to SOOO'carats a day.!'. B)ambiids ; of_th3 •sizeofcthose-he bad described were, worth; about' <■ 80s.' 'a*carat; j and -the -Jcost.-.of.; .winaing: : them ; was in liUderitzißay bnlyiSs;,a■cardti'as'com•'pared'with about; 183.- in.Ketona,'and 265.: iff :-Kimberley.' J ' WKereas"elsewhere";the ; diamond!. : t were/firmly-embedded; : in luderitz . thiy. ; had r siihply : to"be'piol£ed out;of the He fihad r -done it'himself.'.'"(Laughter,.. ■; oheers frdni :; the.Sociolists.) He iras not:telling 'fairy'talesot.draTring'.upon theArabian;. Nights. •"Assbon as'ieivs of ;the discpveries;was received, : ■ the ; Goveriimenc! had taken.measures to;secura. '-■ exoinple'of the"'late>South African Eepi\blic anl ■ .Orange:■ River yEree:State.",■;.;TheV.biped.- thit, • Gerjnan trade would;also profit:by ; the"discoy-' 4 erjes-ViiThatthe Socialists'.ridiculed -'.the matter iprflVfid ;■ that'-in:qblonial^affaire/tat , an/'.rato;;; !;jhe'y,4were:ill-informed^ -;v*.i ; ;^:V> : ' ; '.'