Bad News from Kimberley
Some diggers who lately returned from Kimberley, do not corroborate the reoei t favourable accounts. They say there aio about 300 on tbe field and the sufferings have been terrible, dozens of strong, bealtfay men perishing miserably from scurvy and dysena tery, while the tracks from Cambridge Gulf are strewn with bleached bones of man and horse, and at tbe Gaff there are somethirg like 30 graves. They agree that there is little or no alluvial gold to be got, while it is yet doubtful whether tbe country possesses any quartz reels. The expense of testing would be enormous, from the great distance of the field from civilisation. Three ounces of gold obtained there in quartz mining would, perhaps, be only equal to Idwt obtained in Victoria.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 2
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131Bad News from Kimberley Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 2
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