Australian Telegrams.
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Tho Sydney Morning Herald of the 31st contains a letter from JO. I). 8. M intern, who hns-just returned froiri JSTew Guinea, and in wiiicii he expresses surprise nfc the statement of Mr Beddome, Police .Magistrate of Somerset. Regarding the discovery of gold at Papua, Mr Minion says he has had sixteen years' experience as a mining engineer and prospector, and during three weeks he spent at Papua, he explored the creeks,
and prospected the banks and rivers, and also at the foot of falls nnd the base of the ranges, and found no gold whatever. He found any quantity of mica, which looks like gold, nnd which he says would deceive any non-experienced miner or prospector. He thinks that Mr Goldie, being a botanist, was deceived by the mica. Mr Minton brought samples of sand awny* from the different places lie tried, and had it analysed by one of the most experienced analytical chemists in Sydney, who pronounced it miencious sand of no value.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2778, 9 January 1878, Page 2
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176Australian Telegrams. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2778, 9 January 1878, Page 2
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