In such country even the most valuable deposits can not be profitably developed, Lack of water, intolerable heat and the high cost of transport are the insuperable obstacles to the development of the inferior, These are the reasons for Australia's "great open spaces" so often criticized by those who can not understand Australia's. inability to absorb an unlimited number of migrants from countries anxious to dispose of their surplus population, A visit to the interior would speedlconvince them that a great part. of the continent Is t for neither man In northern Queensland, however, recent surveys have disclosed what Promises to be a rich new goldfleld. The area has been carefully surveyed and the deposits tested sufficiently to indicate their possibilities, A road is being cut through dense tropical Jungle, "and the field should be in }production before the end of the year. But only very rich deposits can be ex-Ploited in a country. where costs of Production are necessarily high, and, if the Government surveys accomplish nothing else, they will protect the public from investing in mining enterprises that have cost the unwary investor dearly in the last few years.
Sr, Antonio Jaen has been appointed the. diplomatic and consular representative: of the Valencia Gov. jonment for the Far East. It is not known where the new Spanish official will reside,
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