New Goldfield In New

Guinea

Between Wau and Edie Creek

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rabaul. Jan. 15.

THE Mining Warden for the Morobe district, Mr. H. Taylour, in his Novem ber report, which has just been released, refers to a new goldfield which has been discovered, between Wau and Edie Creek, The report reads: “Mr. R. S. Moody, who has been pros pecting in the vicinity of the Wau-Kaindi mule road, about mid-way between Wau and Edie Creek, has located gold-bearing quartz.

“The extent of the discovery is at pre sent unknown as insufficient work has been done to expose the underlying for mations. The surface of the ground is covered with forest growth and moss, and few rock exposures are visible in the immediate vicinity of the find. Several shallow test-pits have been sunk from the surface through broken and fractured schistone rocks.

“I saw dish prospects washed from three of those pits and each one showed a good ‘tail’ of free gold. Pieces of quartz and partially oxidised pyritic breccia, broken from a shallow costean, also showed free gold.

“The work so far carried out shows the rock formations to be fractured and dis turbed, and further systematic prospecting will be required before any definite opinion can be arrived at concerning the nature and extent of the occurrence. Four gold mining leases have been applied for over the discovery area.

“The find is being investigated and reported upon by Mr. J. M. Spence, late Mine Superintendent with New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd. An assay made of the bullion from dish prospects taken from the talus gave a fineness of 806.4 and 193.6 silver. This fineness is higher than the average alluvial gold found in Edie Creek.”

The Orient Company’s liner, “Oronsay,” will leave Sydney on another Islands cruise to New Caledonia on March 29.

She will call at Lord Howe Island before arriving at Noumea and will return via Brisbane. The cruise will be of 11 days’, duration.