WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1701, 7 May 1886, Page 2

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

♦ 8 THE NORTHERS (JOLDFIE DS. i \ Pkrtfi, April 8. ] The Cossack, which arrived here yesterday, brings very good news of the goldhVUs at Kimberley. Carlisle and party had arrived in two divisions. The first batch of four men brought in 56 ounces, aud the 9eeond ha eh a , smaller quantity. M'Dermott's party brought iu 10 ounces ; Keelan, of Port , Darwin, arrived with 24 ounces, aud . left his mate doing very well. Edgar and others had 85 ouncps between them. Moore and Morrison reported doing well, and Hall and Slattery fairly well. When they returned to i i the goldfields in October last the party j split tip into two, one division going to i j the creek, where they obtained the I first sold, hut. found it full of water, j and could not work it, but they after- j . wants returned, and are said to have , got GO ounces. | The men are here from Cambridge Gulf, and say the road thence to the diggings is rough and waterless iu the dry season. They found a good dry | road to the fields, but old miners urge j no one should come without six months ; provisions and horses, or plenty of i money. The diggings are 370 miles i away, and great misery would ensue if prospectors were not properly e.quipp« d. j Twenty men are hen?, and about 50 on j the fields, and Queensland and Port ! Darwin men are proceeding there i every dt.y. A good nugget has been ' found, but the gold is mut.-h scattered, | though rout 1 gold, and indications [ promising for the future. j The natives have speared two I diggers horses at Cambridge Gulf.