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Show SELECTED. The Diamond Field f Sonth Africa. The Grahnnfton, (Cape of Good Hope) Jnvrnnl i f :he 12th r.f Augu.-t. There certainly never ha? been such a stir in this colony before, exceptinsr at the time of was, Every town and district in the colony has sent its con--ir.gent to the army of workers at the Vaal Field?, and still the movement goes on. In May there were about uie hundred men at the dig.-inrs. Before the end of June there were seven hundred. At the close of July there were over one thousand ; and at resenc it i estimated that there are ;it the Klip Drift, Pneil Hebron and Kiebkatiima Field.? no less than two Thousand men. A hen it is remembered remem-bered that the European population in the colony is scattered over a large surface, sur-face, and at the test . but small, and that distances here are very great, it will be understood that pretty strong motives must have been at work to oc casion so large a movement. The disco dis-co v-eiy of the "Star qf South Africa," now known at home,' has been followed by that of other'-stones, which, if not S3 valuable as that superb gem. are of great excellence and in large numbers. As the fields are in a country owned by no one who can substantiate his claim, there is no organization of labor and there are no means of ascertaining the actual discoveries. Some keep their good fortune to themselves, and again there are cases in which a diamond dia-mond is talked about until it becomes several diamonds. The custom returns will, after a while, give trustworthy statistics.. At present it is estimated that the Natal, Company, has sent home diamonds to' the value of 11',-000; 11',-000; that Mosenthal & Co. shipped 4,500 by the Roman, that the A'orsc-nai A'orsc-nai took away 4jt) and the ybrtham 2.S00, while it is said that the Cambria Cam-bria will now receive jO,000.- If to these sums be added the price of the Star of South Aftiea a sum of 00,000 is reached, and these shipments leave a large number of gems in the colony and in the possession of diggers, at the fields Some parties are known to have been very sucocssful. : i'l'he Natal and and King Williamstown parties may be especially mentioned. They have divided about 20,0U0 between them. As a matter of course, out of so large a number of diggers1 many have been greatly disappointed; ; and in' making the above statement, we do so only in our ofiice as reporter of news, and not at all with , a desire to escite to ra.-h adventure. , ; As to the position of the fields, it may be as well to say that they are within one hundred miles west of Blcem-fontein Blcem-fontein and one hundred miles north of Fauresmith. L,et any one who has one of Hall's maps of South' Africa follow the twenty-eighth line of latitude until it crosses the Vaal.. Immediately before be-fore the point ,of intersection he will see a great bend in the river. The fields are on both sides of the river, at the lowest secondary curve of that great bend. Cm thesouthea.stei n side is the Phiel Field, and on the northwestern side is the Klip Drift Field.;. Port Alfred Al-fred is the; nearest colonial poit to the diamond fields, and Capetown is the most distant. From Grahamstown, whether by Craddock or Queenstown, the distance is Dy no means formidable.' A party from the city accornplishe i the journey in a bullock wagon in eighteen days.' y'e do not advise any One who lives "at home at ease'' to rush to the . diamond diggings; but should the lottery prove as attractive at home as it has shown itself to be here, then it should be remembered that the nearest seaport to the fields is neither Capetown nor Port Natal, but that Port Alfred and Port Elizabeth Eliza-beth are much nearer, and at cither of these ports good traveling accommodation accommoda-tion can be obtained., : |