Solomons’ Gold.

We have received the following from “Sulphonal”; — To the would-be speculators, and chasers of the elusive auriferous reefs of the Solomons, a warning!

Having been in personal conversation and touch with genuine and conscien tious mining experts, who really are in a financial position to carry on oper ations, I am prepared to state that prospecting in this group is very pre carious and exceptionally expensive and there is very little hope of returns for time, labour and money expended.

It is easy for some late Islands’ re sident to obtain possession of aurifer ous samples from other lands and to state they were actually found in the Solomons. There is every reason to believe that this had been done in the past and the ex-islanders’ yarns have gained credence with bad results for financiers.

There is "a mug born every minute" and one is apt to think there are quite a few in the smaller financial circles of Australia who are prepared to finance an expedition after having listened to “a cock and bull yarn” and seen a few rock specimens that in all probability come from an adjacent backyard. The “silent six” have not yet shown their hand and it must have cost them a pot of money to date, notwithstanding them being in possession of the “dinkum oil.