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Natives Bring In
The Nuggets
Lae, D
THERE is lively interest area of New Guinea in ’ called the “Kainantu dis( A native recently came in Commonwealth Bank in Le a couple of jars of coarse gold—2B ounces altogether nugget weighed over 7 ounc The news caused a sti officialdom rather played it it was insisted that there indication of a “strike.”
Mr. M. J. Leahy says he approximately the creek which the gold came. It is Markham-Ramu Divide, anc into the Markham. All that was heavily prospected on the search for a new goldfi finally abandoned. But scratching around, are alwa; to come upon small pockets beds of the creeks.
Gold-mining is a much dis industry in the Territory the Twenty years ago, 28 our matter where it came froir have started a panic.