EXPLORATIONS IN NEW GUINEA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 278, 14 March 1877, Page 4

EXPLORATIONS IN NEW GUINEA.

w Bfr. A. CMtfi*, »WfeV some considertffl» time puat haft 'been exploring New Cfofata* i* no* «* Auckland, and has sap* y&tt the Bwtttti with soma particular* of Mi torn. It seems, he went over to New Christ* in » mission vessel, and landed at Bltatiky f&*y« The w»tives living at this g$M« are ©I the Anaapata tribe, and Mr. GolmV* first task was to make himself gcqaaiateef to some extent with their tangjaagr* He had with him one European, »man whom he picked up at Somerset, Elk Northern Australia, where tie had been ft constable at the station, and a native of Is* New Hebrides.. Accompanied t>y Hhum. men and! by several natives, Mr. (toldi* made various excursions into the interior,, penetrating to a distance of 30 Bcdles fireai the sea coast.. If e states that lh« natives sHowutE no distils s or suspicion respecting hit», altiough it may easily bj t»aceiv«d that they wore utterly puzzled lt» think what object anyone could have Ed picking up toe coeuuon plants of their Mountains and valleys. Mr. Gutdie repfeSents tile as exceedingly dmB»rous v not So tuuuli> from the heat as from \hm malaria with waklt t!u air t* infecS jd» itrangu to say, t'ia cluntta wa.* i» >st unieattUy wheru the country was e*po»jd to lh« Sea Mr.' Wutdiu's wanderings Vttftt much eiruitinsuribud owing to tiie litfiealty im pitssing from ouu trib-j to mother. A great part of the tt.nu of New 3tlinea is n»w, and Mr., Gotdie l«»s saut to London 1>• large casos of live ptaub* f»r htt deleutafiioo of the botaabuS oc I'li-tnyc. Slu found also' that tiieru am plains bearnjr griws gunikw to- tlw besi gra*sj» of lustratia. Me has atio« ajut 'l-0> bir.U' Duns, many of of lvjw spucies ; he laslttft £o* bu'tts" skins at WolUngbon, an.ll oat %dn«y. Mr. Gotdiu aUo sjnb to hr, Mtudi'av, of Mjthouruj, a nuiubjr of iried botanical! spuciiujns, tu.vny new to eience. A large colkction of insjets h-as lßo> been secttrud and sent to L uiJou. Iu Hy Mr. Cfotdie was six months on New sumea> and four months on the islands Dt Torres Strait., lie proposes to return o* New Guinea at an early period, for the Ktrpose of exploring the mountain ranges-