THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD.
(Per Rotomahana at the Bluff )
(united press association.) Port Darwin, July 28.
Reports from Cambridge Gulf and King Sound state that no gold has been received from the Kimberley diggings for about two months. About three thousand men are now in the Kimberley district. Cartage to the diggings is eighteenpence per lb. from Derby or Wyndham. The prospects of the fields are not considered such as to warrant the present rush, and the country promises better for reefing than for alluvial mining. A party of three men prospecting in a gully were attacked by Natives,, one was speared through the heart and another in the forehead. The former died instantaneously.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 25
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113THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD. New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 25
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