&2 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



hurricane zone, has an agreeable climate, and a 

 plentiful rainfall, except in the dry belt of the 

 central division. 



''Thus the planter has every advantage 

 which nature can bestow to render his enterprise 

 successful. The soil is considered equal in 

 richness to anything in the world ; and our 

 correspondent's experience leads him to ex- 

 press it as his opinion that, in the course of a 

 few years, when Australia has realized what a 

 valuable asset she possesses, 1 right at her very 

 doors, Papua will have become the most pro- 

 lific and richest exporter of tropical products 

 outside of Ceylon. Labour is plentiful and 

 cheap, and land easily obtainable on the most 

 liberal terms." 



1 We think that after his lecture before the Royal 

 Geographical Society this year, already referred to, both 

 Australia and the Mother Country can now be said to 

 have realized the economic value of Papua. 



