New Papuan Goldfield
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 29.
INTEREST in the Astrolabe field still holds the attention of residents in Papua and, following the favourable re ports* of Mandated Alluvials, further appli cations have been lodged for gold mining leases.
On September 22, a mineral lease (30 acres) No. 134, known as “Merigeda,” was applied for by T. L. Sefton; and on Sep tember 30, two gold mining leases, No. 19 and 20 (10 acres each), known as “Gahi bera” and “Borobo,” near and on Sap phire Creek, by E. P. Hitchcock; while E.
Evans applied for a renewal of extension of his prospecting area known as A.S.O. on Musgrave River.
In the Warden’s Court, early in October, an application by Mandated Alluvials N.L. for a water right of 200 ground sluice heads, to obtain water from the Laloki River, at a point about 150 feet above the crest of Rouna Falls, in order to generate power by turbine for mining purposes, was granted.
On October 13, in the Warden’s Court, the following applications were made: For mineral leases No. 135 and No. 137, known as the “Naumakala” (89 acres) and the “Naumakala Extended” (60 acres) — both leases situated on the Laloki River.
Applicant: T. L. Sefton.
Application No. 136 for mineral lease known as “Maia-koi-ani” (100 acres) situ ated on the Laloki River. Applicant: F.
A. Roberg.
Mr. J. C. Sedgers, one of Messrs. W. R.
Carpenter and Co.’s inspectors in New Guinea, sailed from Townsville, Queens land, for Rabaul by the Montoro on Octo ber 26.
Mr. J. P. Blaikie Webster, head of New Guinea Goldfields Limited, departed from Brisbane for the Morobe goldfield, New Guinea, by the Montoro on October 23.
Mrs. E. W. P. Chinnery, wife of the well-known Director of Native Affairs in New Guinea, arrived in Australia by the Neptuna in October. . Mademoiselle Renee Hamon, a special feature writer for the Paris journal, Intransigeant, left Noumea, New Cale donia, by the Eridan on October 18 for Papeete. She will spend three or four months writing in Tahiti and will then return to New Caledonia.