QUEENSLAND.
Gappy nml Mncrionnld's nrosppoting party has returned to May town rrooi tb« Colemsin Hirer. They report having struck a river flowing through flat ssindy country 120 miles from May town. They met with no signs of gold. They then travelled forty miles northwestward to Mount Newberry, traversing granite country. They pms| ooted for three weeks, but only got 6 jvrta.— A. monster meeting was held afc Cooktown on the Chinese question. Ik was the largest mooting ever held nfc Cooktown. Resolutions were passed denouncing the present Queensland Governm"nt for its tyrannical acts against the Chinese, and fully on* | doraing the " Vasal o id's " telegrams as |to Chinese immigration being indisI pensable to settlement in this tropical climate. Groins were given for." Ibef " Queensland^ " and the Queensland; Ministry. — The cutter Lulia has arrived at Cairn* from a cruise round the South Seas. From the Solomon Islands she went to the north-west eoist of New Guinea, and having prospeotod there got a larno qnantity of curios. Ono mnn got a splendid specimen of gold • hearing quartz The Lplia took as a passenger ono of the chiefs of Npw Guinea, who proceeds nn to Melbourne. The news c f the gold finding has created some excitement here.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 97, 19 November 1877, Page 2
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