THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 2

THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

A number of people intend to leave for Kimberley shortly. Ono party of six ia taking waggons, horses, and two tonß of provisions. Thoy have a capital of a thousand pounds. Should sufficient inducomont offer, a steamor will load at Bluff for Derby early in July.

Melbourne, June 4. For the present thero is a lull in the demand for passages from Melbourne to Cambridge Gulf and King Sound. Somo forty or fifty arrivals from &ew Zealand are inquiring; for berths. The public interest in the gold fields continues unabated and the slackness in starting is attributable to a general cautious feeling and desire on the part of the prospectors, before being irrevocably committed, to vorify, aa far as possible, the report 3 already to hand and to decide upon the- rolativo morita of of the Cambridge Gulf and King Sound as the povfc of debarkation. Tho Derby eorrcpondont of the " West Australian" writes as follows by the steamer which arrived this week ;—"; — " Incoming and outgoing goldseokors are- becoming so common that we havo almost lost count of them. About 700oijs. of gold havo now beon brought into Derby. Moore, Morrison and Hedley have returned after 12 months' absence, and they, of course, have the largest take of gold — 2SOo/«. or thereabouts — us they havo beun up far longer than any other of tho men, though in October last year they had verj little. In addition to tho gullies around the Elvire and tho Black Elviro they have got srold op the head u atom of many of tho tributaries of the Margaret, considerably nearer Derby than tho lir?fc find, and, in fact, well within the we^t Kimborloy district. Hall has reached Yeeda station ■with the Government hordes. He has bi ought down a fair amount of gold, notwithbtanding tho difficulties ho had to contend with. Two men out of the party were almost aluaya sick, and two had to be continually after the hoine a , and only two remained to work. Mooie and Morrison are of opinion that tho gold will by no means stand a largo rush — in fact, they go co far as to say Ihcvfc thure is not a goldfiold yet discovered, They havo explored tho Orel region vary thoroughly in the last twelve months, and refer, of cour&o, to the alluvial work ; but I hope it will turn out that they are taking a very pe-si-mistic view of the case, it beimr lomcmbered that the whole of tho Lite which has been done was gully-scraping, and that the pick has not been used. As I mentioned in my last letter, patches of gold-bearing ground aie spread o>er an immense area, and are goncially of such a nature a3 to promiso splendid reefing, but diggers who rush heie first will expect to [ make their pile at alluvial woik. The richest spot yet worked is Brockmans Creek, which lies about, thirty miles east of Mount Barratf. Moore and Moriison I wore on this creek some time aero, but were unable to t top and work it, as they were getting short of provisions and hod to go to the gulf for a fui ther supply. When xhey camo back, Keelan and his mato from Port Darwin had been fortunate enough to drop right on it, and were doing well. Several parties have lett since my last letter, and I am to say soina of them are very in1 sufficiently supplied with horses. I know ot two ur threo at least who are making tho journey on foot, with only»one pack horse. I hope no harm will como to this symptom of ami sacra Jcuim."