THE LATEST FROM NEW GUINEA.
• The: Mr Mane ' Courier's ■ correspondent boarded the Torres Straits mail i steamer and interviewed Mr. Morton, of! the iSydueyMuseum, who has been in Goldie’s party, and accompanied him in searching for gold, in New Guinea. He has specimens of good coarse gold, washed out of the .' black sand.i add gold in quartz. His statement mainly verifies Mr. Tawes’ report, and! there are no further, discoveries. -He 'States- that he first discovered gold. fifteen miles from the coast, and: followed it up.sixty miles. The correspondent felt quite certain, after conversation with Mr. Mbrton,» and seeing the. specimens, that some large fields must be opened. The black sand is very plentiful in the river-bed, and the formation is bluestone and slate. Mt. .Mortoii left, Cape Morseby on the 19th January,; and/.reports/a .severe! drought all along the New Guinea coast, from Port Moresby; to South i. Cape. The plantations were destroyed, and: even'the forest trees .were killed by it.; Mr. Goldie and party left Cape Moresby, to go to South Cape. Ou -the Ist January sighted the missionary lugger! Mayri, Captaini Dudfield, who reported as follows While anchored at Stacey Island, where the Rev. J. Chalmers and wife and four Native teachers are stationed, on the afternoon of ‘ Saturday, 29th December, sent three of my black crew to cut wood, myself and another native only ‘ remaining on' board. 1 . One Stacey Island native came off to barter. I told the. cook; to give him wood, and .he lay down in the cabin. After a few minutes a spear was thrown into the cabin and struck me on the left side, pinning .me to the deck. Another went into, ray right thigh. On turning round for my gun I received another spear in the left shoulder and another through the hand. I fired several shots and tried to get on deck. There I ' found six, or eight natives, and received a wound in the foot, severing all the tendons of the toes. We wounded several and killed one. : They then left, ! and on going on deck' I saw two or three hundred natives on the shore. Mr, Chalmers came off:and informed, me that the natives were launching war canoes, and .insisted upon my leaving. ; I pressed him to come with his wife and the teachers, but he refused to desert his post. Mr. Goldie's party, returned upon hearing this, and grave fears are entertained for the safety of Mr. Chalmers and party.” Captain Dudfield is maimed for life. 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5290, 9 March 1878, Page 3
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420THE LATEST FROM NEW GUINEA. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5290, 9 March 1878, Page 3
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