KIMBERLEY GOLD-FIELDS
The Powell’s Creek News states tbit parties are daily passing for Kimberley - waggons, drays, pack horses, and swagmen. One man lost his way, and is reported to he alive with the natives, who are detaining him. Two brothers, with 43 bones, lost the a on a dry stage, east of Powell’s Creek, a d when looking for them, found the skeleton >f a man under a tree. It is uncertain wheth >r it is that of a native or a white m u. Ramis badly needed, and the water is dryi g np. The Hero has arrived from Wyndham w/h 230 disappointed diggers, who are letnrni '. The news from the goldfields is similar to t it previously brought. Most ol those on t e field are not earning food wages, the majoi. y averaging jdwt per day though, a few e getting good returns. Some intend to remain ontil after the wet season, in or r to make a further test, but hundreds me returning.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1897, 15 October 1886, Page 3
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167KIMBERLEY GOLD-FIELDS Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1897, 15 October 1886, Page 3
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