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Very little is heard of late from the K$ berley goldfields in Western Australia. 'f£ rainy season set in in the beginning of H vember. It was then calculated that tlf* were about 500 men on the field.' They!" working in the three first discovered gull ■ and many of them are scarcely mat " tucker." Tbecountry issovolcanicthatlf and reefs cannot be traced. - There is veij tie prospect of a payable and permanent t * being established. Of' the Teetulpa'goldf/*' in Adelaide we, hear better accounts. Th<f ? men are not makingf orfrunes in aweek,^ 1 are getting good gold, ! and there is^no q<^ tion that rich alluvial deposits exist. |jj Melbourne Mint has already received in&, some 5000 ' ounces from the, .field. ."TbisA course, represents the purchases made by^banks. It may ; not be too wild a-guesfi, hazard the opinion that this is not more|| half or two-thirds of, what has been'gotfe which cane we may reckon the output of ft field at 10,000 ounces.' The heat is 1 very p ing at Teetulpa. On Christmas DayS| temperature , was , about* 108 in tents. || the diggers organised at sports gatbe|i wher£ they enjoyes themselves as best m migfit nndeV'a'ifcbrijhipg'eo^ ana .with bfift

ing whirlwinds of dijsV, fcasslrig, over ttft plains at short interval!? Jmi ii; ''••* The Charters To were (Northern Territory) correspondent'of, the Queensland^ writes :~"Th< crashings .for, November gave a very.satisfactorj record o£wor£,done, the .average being, I think, higher than* 'any this year, rianWly^loz 16dw< I4gr per ton, but I see that the 2 record'-'for the game month last year was even higher, being joz 18dwfc*17gr per ton, the yield being 5385t0ne 4c wt for 10,4230z 12dwt 9gr, as against 7048 tone •icwt stone, s yielding 12,8940z Ildwt 21grfor this' November.! The total for. the year, including November,^ 72,045 tons llcwfc' l|ar'. stone, ff O rl22,B7soz3(lwtlsgrgold: : ./<.' The Lady Maria tribntors have' cleaned up a crashing of 58J tons,'which'yielded ; them 2050z ;13dwt 15gt of smelted gold, or oveK'loz' to the 'ton.' ■ •■ - ,ci~ s > "TEBTUMPA ITEMS. The following: item's ace from the 1 South Australian Chronicle of the 25th ulttf: — The weather continues f eatf ully hot and dry. oathea the 18th all 1 work was suspended, in consequence of a dust ' storm which swept over tho district. On the previous day also in shallow ground work was almost impossible, and for a few hours 'fo^he middle of, the. day Brady's and Goslin's Qulli6s were almost dcsef ted.' No sensational discoveries were reported from either place, i . , The big nugget secured in Stoneham's prospector's claim, mentioned in my -last message, tnrned the 'scale' 1 afc' 7oz sdwfc 16gr. The' prospect in this gully' is good.' The bank* purchased 200oz of gold on Saturday, making the ' total for .the week 7730z, the highest total far a week since the branch opened. 4 . . Two diggers' at, Windlass. Hill weighed and divided their gold,, the result, of nearly, 6ix weeks' work, at Oarr's store this evening. The value of the metal was £700. ( The biggest find for the week was made on Friday, when .two old Bendigo miners unearthed a nugget at the north end of Windlass Hill weighing 2soz. „'■■' . . ' . O'Koene, in Goslin's Gully, one of the' most laoky men iv this part of, the field, sold his claim on Saturday for £30, and started for Adelaide for the purpose of recouping .his health and celebrating Christmas. . . ,i • The sensation of to-day, on the 20th, was the unearthing of a nugget in Brady's Gully weighing soz 16dwt 19gr. The^ lucky finders are Lynch and partner, and the claim is situated next to Brady's ground, on the south side. Brady and party's total for the past week was lOoz. ' ' , , A young'man named Scott purchased a claim on Windlass Hill on Saturday for 15s. On Monday morning he commenced work, and before 1 o'clook Btruck a pocket which yielded 3§oz of coarse gold. That the output of Teetulpa is not decreasing is demonstrated by the fact that the purchases of the bank during the last six days (7730z) exceeded those of any previous week. This, of course, does riot represent the whole of the gold raised, as, .many. of the largest nuggets have been secured by tne warden for the Government. Mr Hack has purchased 150oz up to the present, at a cost of about £600, and proposes to make the total purchases' 1 of the Government £1000 worth if the Mihistry will empower him to do so. - * -"- -" '"■ • The Northern Argus> < gives thd- following among the items of Teetulpa, fn^ws;-^-" We were conversing with a pereou the other day, whohad.returned,from Teetulpa, and who has had consitlerable>experience on Victorian fields. He Rays.that.Teetulpa fairly puzzles him,- and judging irom surface indications,, and the general lay of. the cpuntry^u , old , digger would never have 'thought of searching for gold there, there being' no, resemblance between these diggings and those in the other colonies. For a considerable distance the ground, has, been prospected and hundreds of holes put down without any big finds. He arid about 100 others sank shafts off from the diggings, and he had the washdirt carted to water and tried. The others were watching' the process with feverish anxiety. The stuff yielded the colour only, and the prospect not being Considered sufficiently encouraging the .locality in question 4 was deserted. Of course, as our informant says, it was not a true test of all the ground, and wash frem other claims in the same gully might have yielded payable gold. ,But,'the miners cannot nfford the risk of having the stuff, taken to water. Hence, if the , metalis not found by dry fossicking the claims arp abandoned."

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Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 12

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INTERCOLONIAL. Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 12

INTERCOLONIAL. Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 12