Tavua’S Discoverer

Mr. William Borthwick (better known as “Bill” Borthwick), who discovered the Tavua goldfield, in Northern Fiji. He arrived in Sydney from Suva on Novem ber 2, with his friends Mr. Pat Costello and Mr. A. Ousey.

Mr. Borthwick is 76, and afraid to stop working (said the Melbourne Herald) He has seen too many miners retire and die to want to follow their example. So he has a full programme before him—on to Melbourne, the excitement of risking some of his mining gains on the Cup, and then up to North Queensland where, with Mr. Costello, he proposes to look round for gold near Charters Towers, Rockhampton and Cairns.

Mr. J. A. Ewen, manager of Messrs.

Burns, Philp, and Co.’s Timbur depot at Kokopo, New Britain, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul by the Montoro in November.