The Gold Rush to Kimberley, Western Australia.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1832, 14 May 1886, Page 3

The Gold Rush to Kimberley, Western Australia.

The Special Correspondent of Bailey's Sunday News, Sydney, writes from Perth under dated nth April as follows:

As I predicted in my former correspondence to your journal, the gold rush to the north-west as we call it hoe, has turned out to be a "true rush" and the fields bear promise of success. Various reports are current a* to the amount of the find, but I think the , quantity brought to Derby is only about 400 ounces of alluvial gold, chiefly in nuggets. Good quarts reefs have also been discovered and this will go e long way to make the fields a centre of population. Doubtless many of your readers will be eager to know the locality of tbe find and the means, of couveyMcethitW. From Sydney it would ; thence by * *• Company* boat to Fra> ns.saloon; * 77i> apt- A final iaavus hen abool onoe a month for the North-wait, but dKMild opportunity ofcr boats irold lean more frequently. A barqac ia worn on the berth, and 70 pee aaapn hooked. The port of call ia Derby, •boat soon adim north. It is a bud harbour, and Mona are landed with difficulty. There ■m Utoreo thsre, bht provisions are roy maiat i» high fatfTO Horae. ♦ am Arond fromhma, and whan I tall you ** rom me bm renr Csw good fimaet

on. The fields are between 250 and 400 miles inland. I have tried to get definite information from a man who has been all over the country before the find of gold, and this is the nearest I can get. There is one place where one would have to get over 60 or 80 miles without water, unless he is lucky enough to strike on a water-hole, the exact position of which my informant could not well describe. Once past this the country is well watered, well grassed, and abounds with game. The climate is healthy, and just now the cool season is in, and it is pleasant. I fear when the winter sets in it will be very wet. If any person is going let him ae well supplied with medicines, as there is not a doctor for 700 miles. Let him also bring a good store of ammunition. I would advise the parties to combine in Sydney and charter a ship or barque, and bring round horses. Indeed, at any time this is a good speculation, but just now it would be most profitable. I forgot to say the natives are at times troublesome, and a strict watch at night is necessary. Above all things let me impress on your readers the folly of their attempting to start for the new field unless they have capital, I cannot too strongly impress this on them, and trust they will consider I am speaking for their own benefit in thus warning them.