THE KIMBERLEY DIGGINGS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1538, 29 July 1886, Page 3

THE KIMBERLEY DIGGINGS.

Mr W. J. O’Donnell, the well-known explorer, writes to the Argus from Derby, giving an account oL his trip to the new diggings. He declares the Cambridge Gulf route is much the best and shortest, and says—“ I remained on the diggings but a short time, twenty-two hours, so that I can’t send very much authentic information as to the gold being found fhere at the tirpe. 1 haye, however, heard, on good authority, that several parties who were starting for Derby about the tirpe when I arrived there were taking down parcels of gold varying from 3oz to lOQoz per man. These n»en were all going fo Derby for supplies, and many of them had left their mates, behind getting gold. As far as X could learn tberp wpre only some thirty prospectors there then, Among this number I saw some nice coarse cold, some of the pieces weighing nearly 3oz. We camped on a branch ot the Elvire, called by the diggers the Black Elvire, and during the few hours I was there my mate walked about half-a-mile to a small gully or ravine, from which be brought jn a bag of stuff taken from the bed of the watercourse. On washing it near pur camp he got exactly 7 dwt 3 grains from three tin dishfplls of ttye stuff. This prqapect was t OO good tp be thrown away, so it was arranged that my partner and son should remain there looking for gold while I returned here immediately for supplies,”