Large Scale.
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Japanese Busy In
N. Caledonia.
Mineral Exploitation On Large Scale.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Noumea, Feb. 28.
THE Japanese Steamer “Maniwa Maru” brought in four Japanese (one engineer and three experts) for the opening up of the iron mines at Goro, near the Havanah Passage, in the South of New Caledonia.
At the end of March, all the material for making the wharf, and erecting the most up-to-date works and plant, and houses for the 120 Javanese already brought in, will arrive in the steamers “Brisbane Maru” and “Kokau Maru”.
M. Seo, who is a director of the Noumea Bank in Japan, is opening up the mines named Cascade, Fer, Fer Extension, and Robert, for the com pany Nippon Kokau Kaisha, and will arrive at Noumea on April 16.
These modern works have a loading capacity of 1,000 tons per day—which naturally will tend to enormously re duce all loading costs.