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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3106, 31 January 1879, Page 2

"Me Goldie, the naturalist, who has passed the last 18 months in New Guinea, lias,'' the Brisbane Courier states, " col' lected an immense number of animals, birds, and insects, besides valuable botanical specimens, and believes that a large cumber of these are entirely unknown. He claims to have found an entirely new species of kangaroo. He has brought with him a native from the coast tribes, a good-looking lad of indistinct Malay origin, whose long frizzly hair, tied round with a string, is worn standing straight up. The natives of tbe inland tribes Mr Goldie states to be entirely different from those on the coast in both appearance and customs, but all, he says, are friendly and good-natured, and not given to the deeds of ferocity lately detailed by us on the authority of the residents at a beche-de-nier station. Mr Goldie was of the party that made its way to the coast, crossing about twenty flooded rivers, and losing horses and baggage, and states that although they crossed some high ranges they never reached the dividing range, on the other side of which the general belief amongst the party was that payable gold would be found. The natives in the interior are, it appears, so awed at the sight of a white' man as to obviate any risk of molestation. The custom of a tribe with whom Mr Goldie's party came in contact suggeited to them the probable origin of the rumors that have been always current of a race of tailed men in some remote corner of the globe. These natives wear artificial tails of such cunning construction as to entirely mislead a casual observer. They are entirely naked, except for the caudal ornament, which is a plait of grass fastened round their loins by a fine string, and depending behind to about half-way down their legs. Possibly the missing link that has so baffled Darwin has only lately become extinct in New Guinea, and these descendants, ashamed of their degeneracy, keep up the tradition of a noble ancestry by simulating their distinguishing characteristic."

Says the New Orleans Picayune:—lt is the experience of circus proprietors that one stock of clown jokes will outlast seren sets of canvas covering,