AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
TEMPI:RATI. REGION IN NEW (iI'INEA. Beiskv.ni-:. Nov. 1 The report of Sir Win. McGregor. Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, shows that tropical New Guinea can boast of a temperate region. At 11,000 ft. above the sea explorers found a tract of country in which buttercups, daisies, and other plants of inild climates were growing, while a bird resembling the English skylark was heard.
Some members of the party stiftered severely from the very cold weather.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 163, 4 November 1896, Page 3
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78AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Hastings Standard, Issue 163, 4 November 1896, Page 3
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