KIMBERLEY NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1496, 7 October 1886, Page 4

KIMBERLEY NEWS.

MbiboUHnb, Sep!;. 28 Lh, News from Kimberley »‘nua (hat, the steamer O'*ay lias arrived at -Ocosack, hringii g about fof y dUappoir.tKd diggers, 0 .e of them eajg that the rumour that Me O'bon/eli had> be/e'-i ‘shot ! ah ihy- ebiaged di|geiß is cnnfrm id. -Mirny 6f those on the field ate (i eciirry, and the beat report* the diggers are doing fairly well. I’be captain of the O.way says that iV ie impossible to get authentic in forma* iti'in about (hodiggings, blit 1 he f himself thinks that tbojr are a complete failure, and will enrich no one, but will prove disasrons to thousands. The latest news,from the fl«Ul ie from Ooppec’s 'Gully, dated 'Augu'’f J.2th, when Mr Colin telegraphs to the Sydney Morning Herald ’that;the diggings sr«( o complete fiiiure, Idwt per day being considered a good find, and .hundreds not making that. Numbers are'leavihg 'daily. There are about 800 on the field, who are suffering groat hardship and misery now, and starvation must ensue. Sc mo of (he finest class of men atd the complctest outfits ever seen on an Australian goldfield are on the ground, no expense having been ' spared. At Derby the store keeper cleared out, other Rise his life would have paid the penalty of‘ his' reports about the field.