CANDID CRITICISM of WEST AUSTRALIA. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, 14th March.

Evening Post, Volume LI, Issue 64, 16 March 1896, Page 2

CANDID CRITICISM of WEST AUSTRALIA. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, 14th March.

The Daily Telegraph has published a series of articles from a special correspondent regarding the Wost Australian goldfields. In a leader summarising the articles, the paper Bays : — " That there is anything to justify the present boom has yet to be proved. Actually les3 gold is being raised in West Australia than in New South Wales. The history of the majority of sensational discoveries is muoh the same — they are eminently fitted by the dazzling richness of the surface shows for booming purposes, but comparatively üßeless for the genuine minor on account of the poorness beneath. So long as the gambling continues, and the publio subscribe money to make the pretence of work for all the absurdly-capitalised wild cats with which tho gamo is played, labour will bo in demand ; but when the gamble ia over tho speculators fold their tests and steal away. It is likely enough that a few raiuos will give permanent employment, but- it is absolutely oertain that as soon as they are of no more use for stock exchange gambling the bulk of them will be abandoned. '1 he mines bo far have given no indication that they will sustain anything like the rush thoy have attracted, and miners . are strongly advised to think twice before • abandoning the richer mining colonies easti ward, with the probability of finding themselves stranded and homeless in the west. It will be fortunate if trouble of a serious nature does not result from the rush."