RICH REEFING COUNTRY IN BORNEO.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1888, Page 8

RICH REEFING COUNTRY IN BORNEO.

The steamer Mogul, from Foochow, arrived at Thursday Island on the 12th, and left again the same afternoon." She is laden with bwa andriee principally. Robert Sefton, well-known on the Northern goldfields, in a passenger for Townsville. "He has lately spent a considerable time in British and Dutch Borneo, and speaks very highly of the diamond fields of Landak, in Western Borneo, and also of the alluvial gold prospects. He reports the existence of extensive fields of quartz-reefing country, where reefs exist larger than any he saw in Queensland, all yielding colours of gold. Extensive areas have been worked successfudy for diamonds and alluvial gold for many years, but the natives have not attempted deep sinking or reefing. The Dutch Government and tho native Rajahs are offering every inducement to European, to take up country and work it for minerals. Mr Sef ton has applied for about 100 square miles of mineral country, .16 .miles of which are for reefing purposes. In western Borneo the country is magnificently rich for agricultural purposes. It is principally jungle, and 'is well watered. There are several rivers which are na .gable for about 200 miles from the coast. Ad tropical fruits grow in remarkable profusion. The natives treated him well. British Borneo he considered extremely unhealthy.