Spanish Coins?

Curious Finds on New Guinea Goldfield

TT was reported in Wau last month that Spanish coins had been found recently under 12ft. of wash on a mining claim outside Wau.

Another mysterious object reported to have been found was a remarkaole bowl, or vessel, with human figures impressed around the rim, as a border decoration.

This was found under 15ft. of wash—not in the same spot as the coins, but in the same locality.

The Morobe goldfield is the home of fantastic reports, and confirmation of the foregoing, therefore, is awaited. In vestigation of any such discovery should be immediately undertaken. There have been a number of curious and mysterious objects uncovered on this well-nigh in accessible central plateau of New Guinea since gold-mining operations commenced —suggesting that at some remote period people of considerable technical skill, and maybe Europeans, had discovered and worked this goldfield. The objects which have been found are clearly not the pro duct of the present type of New Guinea natives.