THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3719, 2 September 1886, Page 2

THE KIMBERLEY RUSH.

« (By Telegraph.) CnBisTCHURcn, Sept. 1. A passenger who wont by the Triumph to Derby and has returned states that he considers there is nothing whatever vet to justify tlio rush to Kimberley. So far from there being two thousand men at Derby there were only 200 whon tlio Triumph arrived, and probably not more than three thousand on the field altogether. Ho remained at Derby for five days and says that he did not hear of any large finds of gold, and he considers that not more than 800 ounces have been taken out altogether from nil parts of the fie.d. The reports that have been circulated he says are garbled inasmuch a» only the good side has been told. Captain McGee, of the Triumph, which arrived at Ljttelton to day, brings an account of a meeting at Derby on July 10th, at which Dr Lovegrove, the Government Resident, made a statement of the report given by Sergeant Troy. His report says that several diggers were doing very well at Kimberley and have made several rery remunerative discoveries of gold. Captain HcGee's opinion is that the fields will ultimately bo a great ' success,