NEWS FROM NEW GUINEA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1502, 9 December 1878, Page 3

NEWS FROM NEW GUINEA.

[By Telegraph.] The Hibernia arrived at Cooktown from Port Moresby. She brings twenty returned diggers. Another vessel also left with ton more. The leader of the Colonist party reports prospecting at an end for the present season. On their return trip from the last camp the party experienced great difficulties and privations. The rivers wore Hooded, and their horses wore drowned, and rations lost. Nothing further is likely to bo done till the wet season is over, if at all. A few men aro still at Port Moresby with Captain Eedlick. The Ellangowan Mission steamer arrived safely. The Rev. Chambers writes that everything is progressing favorably with the natives and the mission. He made a recent exploration and reports that lie was well received. He ascended sixteen hundred feet up Cloudy mountain, and found an interesting people living there. He expects to find inhabitants on the top of the mountains. Ho al-o explored the Loone range at the back of Grange Bay lagoon, and was well received and feasted. The mountain lagoon is much larger than was at first believed. The inhabitants of (be mountain are similar to the coast, natives and very industrious. Largo plantations have been made on tbe t Truces. He intended to place teachers in the Mondaria Mountain district, at the back of Former Bay-

N.i p,' vahlo "old was obtained by any of tbc p: ospoctors, and the New Guinea goldfields are pronounced a failure for the present.