WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
A Perth telegram says :—" Rich stone has been discovered by Polades and party in a 50ft shaft at Bindrimie. Three men have dollied 15ozs of gold, per day. The last crushing of 258 tons stone from the Great Boulder mine yielded 1,3880zs of gold. A rich find is reported near Edward's mine. '' " \ The Norsemen field has " petered out." Sydney, February 1, There are ominous signs that the tittle of migration to the West'Aus* kalian Goldfields has turnedf and each east-bound steamer brings back an increasing number of disappointed adventurers.
A party of Newcastle miners who have just returned after several months of hardship and ill-luck give a gloomy aGconnt of the Western fields. In Perth they met hundreds of Ken, stranded, trying to raise tha return passage money. At Coolgardie they. state that there was not the least show for a working man, and if one is caught asking for food, he is arrested, and imprisoned. In the wearisome tramp back from Kalgoorlie they noticed along the road the graves ■' of numbers of wanderers who had perished in the desert. In Adelaide shey met numbers of men on the way west who were so impressed with sheir experiences that they abandoned.' the intention of making the journey, and returned home. ''• ———■——i—fc
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 7, Issue 7, 4 February 1896, Page 2
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213WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 7, Issue 7, 4 February 1896, Page 2
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