KLONDYKE.
Another returned Klondyker has added bis quota to the present very general condemnation of the icebound north as a goldfield. Mr P. Donovan, of Wanganui, who returned by the Warrimoo, tells the " Chronicle " that experience has proved to him that the statements about the richness of the fields are the grossest exaggerations. The gold-bearing area is a comparatively small one. Nearly all the reports of fabiK lous wealth are absolutely false, and the 30,000 men on the field have found too late that they are the dupes of shipping and transportation trading rings. These latter, he says, have reaped a rich harvest by unscrujpulous booming. Very few miners * even in the richest parts of the field, have got gold in payable quantities during the past two years. The labour market is crowded, and thousands are unable to find anything to do, and were, when Mr Donovan left die field, without money to carry them through the arduous winter" which was just beginning.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6344, 25 November 1898, Page 3
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