Tauroi Gold.
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Prospectors Still at Work.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Feb. 20.
Prospecting is still being carried on and prospectors are trying the upper reaches of the Tiveri and Tauri, in the interior of Papua, and are still optimistic that gold is there.
Mr. R. G. Speedie, patrol officer, came into Port Moresby recently from a trip to the head waters of the Tiveri. He was accompanied by Messrs. Suther land and Brooks. They examined coun try around the head waters not previ ously explored, and found the whole of the country on the right bank of the river to be auriferous. Gold was found almost to the source and traces were found in nearly every small creek en tering the river from the north, though in very small quantities.
Test holes were put down in the main river bed and on the adjoining flats, under great difficulties. No payable gold was found.
Mr. Speedie will escort another pros pecting party, next month, up the western branch of the Tauri River, in what is practically unexplored country.
Mr. Speedie has remarked that any mineral wealth discovered there would have to be very rich, owing to the high costs of transport. The country he and the prospectors travelled over was rougher than any other he had encoun tered before in Papua.