The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1886. NEW GUINEA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1687, 17 April 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1886. NEW GUINEA.

Many of our readers are doubtless anxious to know something reliable of r New Guinea, which it is believed m 'many quarters, will yet prove a very attractive colony. A Mr T. C. Kerry, who created a noise a year or eighteen months ago m Australia, m consequence of a discovery of gold he made m New Guinea, has recently arrived m Auckland, which town he left iv September 1884 for the purpose of re-visiting New Guinea, and exploring some portion of its vast interior. Since then he has been several times m New Guinea, having broken his visits there by return trips to Sydney and Brisbane. He commands his own vessel, the Endeavour, and Has cruised along the whole of the southern coast of New Guinea. Mr Kerry thinks a good deal of New Guinea, and says though the swamps along portions of the coast are decidedly unhealthy — indeed h« designates them "the white man's grave" — he regards the country as fertile, healthy, and rich m all the elements of wealth which tend] to make a country great, wealthy, and powerful. There are no charts or maps of New Guinea to be relied upon, and on every occasion he has visited the vast. island he has made fresh discoveries of importance to science and the future trade of the colonies. He states that he has gone a greater distance inland from the coast than was reached by the exploring expedition under the charge o± . Captain Everil, and tibat many of Captain Everil's statements tune not to be relied uoon. He has sailed tip rivers or cretks not shown on any ehtat, but which were found to contain six fathoms of water. The whole of the Panuutr Gulf he looks upon as a dangerous plaKSf for strangers to vi*it. The water is wary shallow for miles from the shore:; i» 00 place does he consider it more (thanttflW) fathoms deep, and heavy nailers are alw.ays coming m. On several occasions he sta^s that he has noticed the mud on the bottom when some of these rollers were m motion* The Fly liver he regards as a. noble stream, . and ooe which would yet carry a large ■volume of trade from the interior. The natives have a bad name, but Mr Kerry states he has always been treated fairly iby them, though he has always been suspicioiiw of them, and was constantly on ' the s!ert. In the course of his rambles j' on the last occasioh, he found large fields ■ of excellent cotton, hundreds of acres m extent, gnawing wild, which would be a aeuffee of great wealth if looked after. He .also f wend large quantities of cedar, aaffi on, finger, and spicts of all kinds m great abnodanpe. Indeed, Mr Kerry regiuds the New Guinea possessions of Great Britain as a rich inheritance indeed, boty ia 'YegaUhJo and, mineral pro* .