THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 756, 27 August 1886, Page 26

THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD.

BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. (REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.) Melbourne, August 19. Telegrams from Perth, West Australia, state that official reports received there show that prospectors at Kimberley are getting two ounces of gold per day. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.) In VEF.CARGILL, August 23. An Invercargill resident, who left for Kimberley, writes from Sydney that he has been told on the bs3t authority that the field is very rich. Pei sons on the diggings, writing to friends, warn them not to give any extracts to the public, as it might induce a great rush.

(Per s.e. Wairarapa, at the Bluff.) Sydney, August 17. The Sydney Morning Herald has received a letter from its correspondent, dated 12fch July, from a place on the Cambridge Gulf, en route to Kimberley, about a hundred miles from the diggings. He gives information obtained from returning diggers and others, who say that food of all descriptions is unobtainable on the diggings, and the blacks are very troublesome. It is reported that they have murdered three diggers while at work. The reported fiuds of gold have been greatly exaggerated. They say the journey to the diggings occupies two month?, the tracks being through rough country. Nothing can be done until rain sets in in December.