THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2940, 18 July 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878.

The New Guinea excitement has not altogether subsided. There are some who still look towards it as the promised land, the new Eldorado of the antipodes. The lately received unfavorable accounts will be insufficient to put down the adventurous spirit which seems to take possession of those who have for any time been engaged in gojdmining immediately new finds are reported. Hostile natives, swamp levers and other subtle diseases peculiar to semi-tropical climes have no terrors for the miner if there be a prospect of rich gold to be got. He is undeterred by ordinary warnings, and frequently proceeds to most remote regions in the face of proofs amply sufficient to satisfy most people that the undertaking is rash. The project for chartering a ship for New Guinea from this port met with scant encouragement, and more recently an attempt was made in Canterbury, but that too fell through. Now we hear that the scheme has been revived in the political capital of the Colony, Wellington. From a private letter received by Mr J. C. Williams from hi* brother George (t'e latter also an old Thames pioneer), we perceive that another effort is being made to fill up a ship for New Guinea, and Mr G. Williams wants to enlist some hard)' Thames and Coromandel miners in the sche^ne, to form a good strong party. The reportof £750 worth of gold per man having been got in six weeks seems, to have inspired the old miners with a fresh lust for gold, and hence the revival of this project. The passage money is to be £20 per man, and if the expedition can muster 250 a steamer will be laid on. In the face of the news recently published, and the fact that miners have returned from New Guinea in a starving, hopelessly distressed condition, we should think that considerable difficulty will be experienced iv making up this party. BeUer to wait for further information than to enter upon such a voyage with the prospects of meeting with nothing but disappointment.