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With australias.
Vanilla ET AUDAX.
PERTH MONDAY, JULY 2, 1888.
THE dark cloud which has overhung
Western Australia of late has not been
long in displaying its silver or perhaps
it would be" more appropriate, in the
circumstances, to say its golden lining.
There are most encouraging signs of
commercial and general revival in the
colony, and this without any of those
adventitious aids which were so loudly
clamoured for but a few months back.
Whatever progress the colony is making
at the present time is due largely to the
thrift, industry, and energy of its colon,
ists who have been husbanding their
resources in every possible way, whilst
at the same time they have managed to
find funds with which to test to a large
extent the various recently reported finds
of minerals. Providence, indeed, has as
sisted the self helpful. Most of the
prospecting in presumed auriferous
localities has been carried on not with
the aid of foreign capital, but by money
found within the colony, and at last there
seems every prospect of the expenditure
and research of our colonists being re,
warded. The reports which we have
have been able to publish of late concerning
the discoveries of gold-bearing
stone in various localities in and about
Golden Valley give cause for the strongest
hopefulness, as the reefs which are
being opened up show, in many instances,
not only excellent prospects of gold, but
a good body of stone. At the present
time there must be close upon 100 men
upon our eastward fields who are making
hay while his arm allies that! is to say
they are taking advantage of the present;
rainy season to prove whether or not we
have a permanent goldfield in that local,
ity. The Government are also do
their share, as the water borer is at
with, it is said, good prospects of su
a weekly mail has been establish
Golden Valley, and £500 has
granted to a local board for expend
on water conservation. The Golden V
country is commencing also to attract a
notice abroad which is so much
required, and in addition to the prospect
tors from Victoria, already on the field,
and who have, we are credibly informed,
reported very favorably to the capitalists
who sent them, an exploring party has
just arrived, equipped by several Victorian
capitalists, for the purpose of testing
the mineral and other resources of the
the country to the East and North East.
The gold news from Kimberley and Roebourne
still continues to be very encouraging,
and it really appears as if
Western Australia's days had come at
length, and she was about to verify the
scientific prediction of SirBoDEBiCK
MURCHISON as to her future as a gold
bearing country viz., that she would
prove the gold bearing colony of the group
or the term surfers" as he called it.
The casual, unscientific, and unpractical
observer cannot fail to be struck by the
apparent richness of the specimens which
have lately been brought into town from
Golden Valley and Mallina, and the most
sceptical are at last giving way, and e
commencing to share in the general spirit
of hopefulness which pervades the community.
The feverish, gambling spirit .
unfortunately engendered by the discovery
of the precious minerals has not yet over-
taken as but there is a healthy feeling
of confidence in the future and of self
satisfaction. It is felt that a courageous
struggle has been made With adversity, if
not dire misfortune, And that those who have
struggled and held on to the last are about
to emerge from the conflict not only with
victory, bat with a good hope of more
than making good the losses of the past
by the gains of the future. Business,
though restricted, is on a sounder basis
than it ever was, and adversity has
taught the community a valuable less
son, which is not likely to be forgotten.
We have other causes for hopefulness
(than those already mentioned. A company
of British capitalists have recently
commenced a loan and agency business
in the colony, and having a large capital?
and a reliable and influential local directorate,
it is reasonable to hope that money
will be obtainable for the development
of existing properties on reasonable terms,
although the operations of the company
are unduly hampered by the necessity of
frequent references to London. The
construction of the Great Southern Railway,
connecting the Capital with the
valuable port of Albany, and passing
through some very useful land, is proceeding
apace, and it is hoped will be
finished by the end of the present level
It is uwdlesifonus'toTonen^wMat we
have so often said, and dwell on the
advantages likely to accrue on the completion
of this section. Another ap- 48
parently very wealthy syndicate are no
gotiating with the Government for the
construction of a railway to Eucla via
Hampton Plains and have already given
substantial evidence of bond flats, in the
shape of a large financial deposit. 'This
line is to pass adjacent to the presumed
auriferous country to the eastward, and
through wide-spreading plains, unrivalled
fw pasturage, over the rainfall question
is settled and it is asserted by
well informed authorities that the
rainfall in " the interior, from' want
of knowledge, has been unduly depre
f

Wed. The importance of the Eucla
IIB from a national point of view can
scarcely be overestimated, and once the
Eastern goldfields are developed, and the
colony stands on a level in point of re
areas with her sister to the East,
Western Australia will find that South
Australia, will have no more distinctly-
national extend her railways to our
Jones that Victoria had to extend her
to the South Australian border. Apart
from other inducements the saving in
distance and time are important consider
*" in this hurrying age, and will
lead to hasten on the connection of the
West Australian and South Australian
w"ass systems. The cable scheme

S*"*?** Messrs, MILes, BROS. to
the Government and Legislature last
?*.*«»». was mentioned in our English
telegraphic despatches of Saturday last,
says if carried stand of this there
seems considerable probability greatly
enhance the importance of the colony, and
improve her position as regards the other
provinces of the continent. It is quite

lÎB from all we have said that
?JthongB'fhe stream of capital and pop
stars has been temporarily diverted
this the colony, it is once more coming
the way, and our prospects are assuming
brightness which they never before
'?.?..?oí. The colony is also just on the
and of obtaining a boon which will doubt
4??. to seven to push it along the road to
Ç*0,P*rfty, namely Self-Government, and

^jMjjj^ appear as if her colonists had a

was tod goodlier heritage before
"off than they anticipated in their
stickfast dreams. Let us hope that
was "all the It once and that

With the experience of the other colonies
we gave them, they will be able to avoid
*°B* of those pitfalls which stand in
a. seer of every country's advancement.

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