NEWS FROM YILGARN.
THE PROSPECT OF RAIN.
Captain Hughes, of the Yilgarn Gold Mining Co., has returned to Fremantle
from the fields. He was accompanied on his trip by Captain Plitner, of
Adelaide, who had been inspecting the Yilgarn Company's mine on behalf of
a South Australian Syndicate, and who has since returned to Albany en
route for Adelaide.
Captain Hughes came from Parker's range via Southern Cross. He left the
fields on Friday last, and that time water was so scarce that it was
impossible to obtain drink for man or beast. It cost him at the last
moment something like 16s. for a drink for two horses, it is was only
obtained as a favour. On Sunday at Glass's station it commenced raining,
but the showers were light and he could not say whether they would reach
the fields.
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