THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5557, 27 July 1886, Page 2

THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

BACK FROM KIMBERLEY.

A digger who left New Zealand, en route for Kimberley, arrived at the Bluff by the Tarawera tc-day. He was interviewed by the Bluff reporter of the Southland Neiu3. This dieter, o f 30 years' mining experience, left this colony in the Wairarapa with a number of others some three weeks ago. On arriving at Sydney an authentic letter was received by one of the party from a cousin on the diggings. He states that all the parties arriving there had to prospect for themselves, as there was nothing like a well-defined goldfield, water was very scare, and there were no provisions Inland with the exception of what the diggers brought, and thoseh<»d alwaysto be packed. There were 800 or 900 people at Derby unable to go further owing to the want of horses, without which it was absolutely impossible to proceed to the field. The impression in Sydney is not favorable, and there is nothing like the excitement that prevails in New Zealand. The season of the year is very bad to get to Kimberley, owing to the scarcity of water. Freight from Sydney to Kimberley is about 50s per ton, lightering to the jetty 20s, and from the jetty to town, 325, in all £5 per ton, with agents' charges added at Derby. The steamers Catterthun and Simla arrived crowded with passengers and horses for Kimberley. All on board were well. The Catterthun lost three horses. A mass meeting of passengers was held, when the Chinese question was discussed, and a Committee was appointed to memorialise the Government with a view to the Chinese being prohibited from working on any goldfield for three years after its discovery.