Another New Guinea

Gold Find

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Sept. 5.

STEADILY, step by step, Australian gold nrospectors in New Guinea are pushing out into the comfortless and inhospitable Sepik region. Every now and again another gold strike is reported and the men nush further into the interior.

One of these days, maybe, they will discover another Morobe.

The “Morobe News”, of August 16, re ported another gold discoverv. about 6 to 8 hours up the Senik River, from Murui, on the western side of the Chambri Lakes Messrs. Beckett and Eichorn found the gold, and have been doing rea sonably well, and a number of other pioneer miners have gone in from Wewak and Madang.

The newspaper says that the big draw back of the region is mosquitoes—and one can believe it. This part of the Sepik is swampy, unpleasant, and generally “lousy”.