Prospectors on Upper Purari.
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Gold In Papua.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, August 31.
THE American mining engineer, Mr.
Ward Williams, who has been caus ing interest by his operations on the Yodda field, has just returned from an expedition up to the head waters of the Purari River. He will leave the Terri tory by the “Montoro” for Sydney on September 5, on a short holiday.
Mr. Ward Williams was accompanied up the Purari by Patrol Officer Cowley and Mr. Moates, his assistant.
The Purari River has been attracting much attention since the discovery of gold in its headwaters, which are rumoured to be near or over the boundary between the Mandated Terri tory and Papua.
Under regulations published in the “Government Gazette of August 2, a new goldfield was declared, to be known as the Purari Goldfield.
By another regulation of the same date the boundaries of the old Lake kamu Goldfield were extended.