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Laloki and the Goldie, but do not appear to have met with any very 
encouraging results, for it is stated that “ the total distance traversed 
by the party during their three prospecting trips was 370 miles, and 
throughout the whole of that distance not a grain of gold was dis- 
covered.”! The late Mr. Richard Daintree, formerly Government 
Geologist of Northern Queensland, writing in 1870 on the metam- 
orphic rocks of that State, and the occurrence of gold in New Guinea 
remarked : — “ It would seem, therefore, that the rock formation of the 
three largest northern diggings, the Peak Downs, and a portion of the 
Gilbert, is largely represented at the south-eastern extremity of New 
Guinea, with an authenticated trend and strike which, if continuous, 
would give such rocks a large development in the interior, and so af- 
ford a fair promise of goldfields when colonised.”* 
Results have shewn that Daintrees’ prognostication has in some 
measure been fulfilled. 
* R. Daintree, General Report on the Northern Districts of Queensland, Brisbane 
By Authority, 1870, p. 8. 
+ Nature, Vol. xix., 1878, p. 15. 
