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Globe, Volume I, Issue 42, 18 July 1874, Page 3

From a letter received! by Mr James Kepple, and which has been placed at its disposal, the “ Tuapeka Times ” makes a few extracts. The letter is from an old Tuapeka miner, who has been at the Palmer. a,nd gives a woeful description of that goldfield, it is dated Brisbane, 22ud May, 1874. My dear friend, —When I last wrote to you my mind was bent on going to California , but instead, I went to the Palmer luvcr. 1 spent six weeks on the field, and scarcely made tucker. There was nobody getting anything, and the place to all intents and purposes is nothing but a living giavc for most of the men who were there. There are hundreds there who can’t leave it ; they are actually lying on the ground, begging of their fellow-men to give them a drink of water. Such a lot of living skeletons wore never before seen—unless the prisoners in the array at the Potomac. The principal diseases are dysentry. low fever, and fever and ague. Depend upon it, this is neither the climate for Victorians nor New Zealanders.”