A TRIP TO NEW GUINEA.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 404, 7 February 1872, Page 5

A TRIP TO NEW GUINEA.

The schooner Surprise has been absent ■from Sydney some eight months. On her 'departure from this p'6rt she proceeded to -New Guinea, and from thence cruised among -the Line Islands. She is last from the Loyalty Group, whence she sailed on the 10th inst. Fresh and favorable winds have -prevailed until her arrival. The schooner 'Surprise, from New Guinea, 'has lately been 'employed by the London Missionary Society 'on the -coast of .New Guinea, where she has '_b'3eo most successful in placing missionary teachers and their families on the main and adjacent island.*. (Captain Paget informs us 'that at'every place v'isitedj instead of hostility and treachery being shown, as has generally been believed, "they experienced' nothing but the greatest kindness and hos.pitality, and all seemed . highly pleased at IBaving teachers placed among them, and it 'is evident they are. very desirous of having -intercourse with Europeans. A.t Redscar •Bay Captain Paget and his chief officer went 15 miles tip the Manoa River, where they had communication with several jf the ""tribes, and were 'kindly treated by all ; they r seemed a perfectly harmless race of people, : and not a single war instrument of any kind was seen' amongst theftii. ' ' They were cef•tainly of Malay origin, and it is quite evident they had never seen white men before, as they gazed with wonder and astonishment -at them, and would not believe they were'human beings before thoroughly, examining "■them; they also seemed., most, anxious to 'have further intercourse with them by invit•ingthem to stay ; and upon their departure they showed great sorrow ; the women and 'children crying, and the men following them •& long way down the river, waving green ! bushes, and making them pfesents of sugar--cave, &c. That gold exists is quite certain, as one of the missionaries had an earthen toqkin'g utensil made a present to him in 'wh'icn Several small specks of gold were distinctly seen.— 'Sydney Morning Herald.'

A .California United States Senator arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York. In the %Veming he concluded to go and see Forrest as -Goriolamts," In front of the hotel lie found a hacknian, and told hini to drive kirn to Niblo's Garden-. Said backman drove liini round 19 blocks and landed him safely at- the theatre, waited xiritil the theatre was' out, and then drove around 17 blocks back

to the hotel. His fare was 15 dollars. Tt *^was not until the next, day that the successful politician /ascertained that both the hotel and theatre .were under the. same roof, and that the \ entrance to each were less than 20 -feet apart j : ,

;v "Cheaper : than dirt," is the; pertinent hi--ißoripfeionoß a.case of ; soapln an apothecary's