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GOLD AMONG HOARD OF ROMAN COINS. CONCERTS TO-DAY,
CANNIBALS.
THE RUSH TO NEW GUINEA.
DIFFICULTIES FOR THE
PROSPECTOR.
[By Rosser M. MACDONALD, The Explorer of Unknown New Guinea.]
|-DISCOVERY IN A SOMERSET VILLAGE
15 EMPERORS REPRESENTED,
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F
TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY.
PLENTY OF ENTERTAIN- MENTS ARRANGED.
AT "K.C.C. KOWLOON TONG AND KOWLOON DOCK,
Tong.
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Fromenade Concert. At the Ede Memorial Park, Kaw.
As a sequel to the discovery by a young local archaelogiat, Mr. B. Egerton Godwin, in August. 1024, of'n great board of between 4,000 and 3,000 Roman coins in n.
There will be a feast of enter Seld at Clapton-in-Gordano, pear Partishead, Somerset, the coins, tainments for both civilians and. The gold rush to New Guinea,
the Services during to-day, to after, cleaning, classification, and though taking place under condi- notation by the British Museum morrow and Sunday. There are tious different in many respects authorities, are now being exhibit military-band concerts includ Irom those of any other gold rushed in the church room at the neigh-
ed in the programmes, one at Kow- in the world's history, is evidence bouring village of Pill. Arranged, loon Dock and one at Kowloon that the lure of gold is as strong according to. "image and super- lo-day us ever.
seription," in a series of glass The sands of the head-waters of cases, they make an astonishing loon Tong, to-morrow (Saturday) the Markham and Bulolo Rivers in diaplay. No fewer than 15 E-evening. from 8.30 to 11.30 there Now, Guinea are literally golden, perors, from Gallienus, A.Dx 953 is to be a promenade concert by and the auriferous formations pro-288, to Probus, 270-29, are repre the popular band of the 1st Came- bably extend throughout a vast area seated in the actual board, coins ronians, under Mr. H. E. Dowell, in the heart of New Guinea as yet of Victorinus and Tetricus being LRA.M., by permission of Major unknown to all but the few prospec in the majority, and coins picked II. C. Hyde-Smith, D.S.O., and tors who have already forced a way up individually on the site, add: into the most inaccessible parts of about half-a-dozen more names. the island
considerable number of the coins are not recorded in Cohen's Medailles de l'Empire, the "stna- dard work on the subject, and the British Museum authorities have selected about 30 to fill gaps in their collection.
I "panned out gold on these rivers over twelve years ago, but, the country then being in German territory, the party with which I was associated had to work in secret with black faces, frizzed hair; and a dress-when we were garhed at all-of fbre kila. The great land of gold is now under a British mandate, bus it was only this year that it was proclaimed a gold field, and the only improvement as yet is that the gold-seeker does not, now run the risk of being shot by the Germans.
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The
Apart from the number of reigas. is remarkable for its great variety. represented, the Clapton collection
In a cursory examination no two coins are found to be exactly alike. in the realistic vigour of the port Artistically their chief interest is raiture and the sculptural beauty of the reverses representing auch bolised by a deer-the She Wolf subjects as Apollo, Diana-sym-
suckling Romulus and Remus, "a The tribes who inhabit the dis-winged figure of Penge, an altar, and a five-horsed chariot, the coins triet are all cannibals of an
being wonderfully well preserved. tremely war-like type, and while it Most of the coins are 3f bronze, was possible for a few experienced but a few are of bilion,"
alloy of silver and copper. prospectors who knew the language laca, suggested by traces of burn- and the tapoo laws to be friendly ing on the site, that the coins came with them, it would be almost im from a local mint is now dismiss- ed, the British Museum pronounc possible for the frenzied hordes of ing them to be minted in Gaul fortune-seekers now rushing to the valley in "the mountains beyond the Razorback range to avoid breaking some strange law of which most will know nothing. And once any man commits this unpardonable sio, a war of extermination may begin which will make gold-getting a very exciting industry,
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Officers.
from those given at the Lee Garden The programme is quite different
serios, and is as under:
March: "The New Colonial,"
Fall.
Cornet Solo: "Siyilietta." Blonn
(Soloist: Bdsm, G. Phillips). Selection from Opera: "Rigo-
letto," Verdi.
Idyll: Evening Breeze," Lang-
Ly Musical Travesty: "D'ye Ken
John Peel," Douglas.
Interval.
Overture: Light Cavalry,"
Suppe.
Bell Gavotte: "Bells of St.
Malo," Rimmer, Selection: Patience," Sullivan. Highland Patrol: "The Wee
Macgreeger," Amers,
Interval.
Selection: Rose Marie," Frim'l. Three Dances from: "Henry
VII", German. Grand Fantasia:
"Battle
Waterloo," Eckersbury. The Cameronian Rant: God Save the King.
Kowloon Dock Concert.
of
Relics of an Ancient Industry. The weekly concert at Kowloon The meaning of "the hoard re- Dock Bathing Beach this Sunday mains a matter of speculation,, but will begin at 8:30 p.m., instead of other objects found on the site- data the whole of the Roman oe last bat one of the series which has pottery fragmenta representing in at 5p.m. as hitherto. This is the eupation of these islands, iron been given in aid of a fund for pails, loom weights, tweezers, a teeth of horses-presumably used as Services at the end of the season. brooch, the bouts of deer, and the holding a swimming gala for the
food-point to an extensive settle
launch. The ferry
will leave Devil-Worshippers.
ment, probably in homes of wood -The-New-Guinea avage is not a lead, and glass in a semi fused con- 10.30 p.m., and arrangements have
and wattle.
Queen's Pier at 8.15, returning at Fragments of iron, puny specimea. He is often eft, in dition, and a quantity of charcoal, also been made with the China height and agile as a panther. He suggest that some industry was Motor Bus Company to run a bus can throw a poisoned spear with carried on.
Together with the Roman re service to the Dock on Sunday ever- surprising precision and he feare mains are shown prehistoric fint
ing. nothing but the unseen devils of his weapons and implements-arrow head, fabricators, hammers, and so
The concert is being given by the tribe and the angry ghosts of his forth-collected by Mr. Godwin in band of the 1st Nortmamptonshires, ancestors. Yet he is not unreason the neighbourhood and also at by permission of Lieut.-Col H. J. ingly blood thirsty, and though the Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The ob tribes around the new gold feld are sect of the exhibition is to collect Thunder, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C.,
funds for the further exploration and Officers. notorious head-hunters, a warrior of the Clapton site in a neigh- will not eat anyone except the man bourhood very rieir in' traces of the whom he kills in personal combat, historic remains; and as showing Roman occupation as well as pre- and then only in the hope of in what can be done by one enthusiast heriting his virtue White pro-it is well worthy of support. spectors are usually eater, but bot all orchid hunters and others!
The tapos is an intricate series
Through the Trackless Jungle. The question of food supplies wil of tribal laws which oven old New require some solving. Stores can Guines prospectors do not under not be floated down the river or alid stand fully. A person or thing is over ice as was the case in the first made tapoo, for some reasoned over the Razorback on the Klondyke they must be transport. O other, by the chief priest. Thenceforth any person or thing that comes in contact with the tapao object also becomes tapoo. All things tapoo (sacred or cursed) are dreaded by the natives and wor shipped as gods or devils because of their supposed powers, bat & living man when tapoo is killed promptly so as to prevent him touching any other people or things and communicating his curse.
shoulders of human beings, and the Razorback is about 12,000ft. high miles from the gold fields, is an old Morobe, the nearest port, only 50 German radio station,, but it will probably soon become the chief town of New Guinea. At present the diggers will eat it out of sup plies in a day.
..
The programme is as under: March: "The Vanished Army,"
Alford.
Selection: Lady Be Good,"
Gershwic.
Cornet Solo: "I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby, Clay (Soloist: L/C. A. Green), Selection:""Rose Marie," Fri.
Interval.
Suite: "Nell Gwyn," Ed. Ger-
'mall.
Selection: "The Vagabond King,"
Friml.
"Cornet Duet: The Friendly Rivals," arr. Godfrey (So- loists: L/C, A. Green and Eda. F. Chapman). Selection: "Tip Toes," Gerah-
win Conductor: Mr. W. Cresswell, L.R.A.M., Bandmaster.
Other Concerts. There is also the 'Concert for the Rabaul, the old German capital, fields in another direction, but the Club to-morrow (Saturday) even is 80 miles distant from the gold Services at the Kowloon Cricket mountains between that model town ing, beginning at 2.30 p.m., and it and the auriferous sands of the in- is understood that the programme terior rivers are entirely unknown.
It is very difficult for a white man The biggest problem that con- arranged is a very excellent one. in daily contact with natives to fronts the digger is how to take Some of the artistes contributing to aroid becoming tapon; be cannot away his gold. A man cannot carry last Saturday's R.C.C. concert pro know what has already been pro- a great weight of gold through
Ser-
claimed sacred or the reverse, and trackless forests, and the gold, gramme will appear again. the entire ignorance of most of being associated with quartz, is vice men are invited to be present, those now rushing to the new gold rather poor and worth only 10s. az and a very large assembly is anti- feld may lead to another massacre
ounce. It is not likely that any like that of the Mambare in the man, once out of the country and cipated. early days of New Guinean gold will go back for a second load. auspices of Y.M.C.A. has been ar on the safe side of the Razorback, An excellent concert under the Therefore, unlese natives can be
mining.
Another existing circumstance induced to act as Carriers, & gold ranged by Mrs. F. J. Jenner, and which will tend to make life unseeker's fortune may be limited to will be given at "Better Ole," pleasant on the new field is the the value of what he can actually Peking Road, Kowloon, at 7 o'clock climate. The shade temperature is carry away... seldom, if ever, below 100 degrees
this evening. The following artistes. and tropical rain falle incessantly, of the world are already on the new Hurst, Soprano, Miss May Gaubert, Lawless parasites, from all parts have promised to take part: Mrs. The result is an atmosphere of fields. Men of this sort do not mine Soubrette, Miss Ivy Gaubert, Ac- steam. Another trifling unpleasant gold for themselves, but ambush the companist, Mrs. F J. Jenner, ness is the presence of fealive returning gold-carrier and endea. Elocutionist, Mr. Vic Blundell, leeches of abnormal size. They vour to take his by violence They Comedian, Mr. Taylor, Tenor, Mr. fasten on to the perspiring skins of will doubtless succeed in exacting. Lawrence, Violinist, and Mr. selves with blood. The leeches of for a time, because shooting at sight skits, etc., by the Bros. Dido, Dick the Markham head-waters are the is not a British habit. But gold and Tod, Chaplin Jackson Warren most ferocious I ever encountered. fields law is swift and seldom errs, trio, and Mr. Holyst will complete
(Continued on next Golumn.) and prospectors shoot straight. the programvie,
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