COROMANDEL. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVIII, Issue 1633, 15 October 1862, Page 3

CO ROMAN DEL. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

No. I. October 11. What a splendid time this present phase of our gold operations must be to those who bee m "the shadow of coming events " but the dark shades, the cloud masses on which the light travels, the vapoms that pieceile a losy dawn, the smoke behind winch the ilash of cannon thundeis;— what a resting place for dark piophccies, this moment of suspense, for sneer ing at misplaced enthusiasm in lashly ventiued outlay, and hugging one's own inggaully wisdom of "never to venture without security of winning." Yes, we always did say so — did we not? Coromandel would tin n out but afl ish in the pan . Well, let it bo a flash m the pan, but we will ram down the chat go once moie, put new pliming into the pan (foi this climate is peculiaily moist, and advene to anything going off at the (iist pull), and then — you th.it stick so close m the slu>ll of your possessions — take cue th.it the fust disehaige of our old piece of heavy metal does not bung your panes and crockeiy to grief — the window-panes through which the lay of equanimity of mind now lazily beams, and the e.uthenwaie on which prim domesticity pudes itself What a huiiy-scurry you will get into, when the news come that you will have to bestir yom selves if you want some of those yellow cheese-cakes you are s>o dearly fond of, then under l.ipid consumption — piobahly by new-comers— fellows dropt from the moon— munching away at them as if they weie feasting iv their own homes, and not in G'oromandel— your vciy own pioperty — gieedy brutes ' If such tilings had not happened over and over again in other countiies, and m othei but exactly similar times, one would hardly take the losponsibihty of piophecy upon one's self But when all the exact stages of "development of something new" are gone thiough evei m the same old ~nny, evej looked at by the same old doubts, ever ci led down as long as possible by the same "old fogyism, " then it is quite safe to piophecy lesults. Nevei theless, though theie is nothing new in the woild, one wonders why people cannot avail themselves of " expeiience ;" and, if wanting it themselves of the e\peiience of otlieis. I should think the cheapest, the latter undoubtedly, would be the most acceptable to an economical communitj'. Up the Driving Cieek nothing new has been discoveied — or at least published— the sliaip nng of the pick on iocky layeis scaicely ceases night 01 day — the blacksmiths' anvil imgs incessantly, to point anew the dulled ad/c and pick Silently and doggedly the uoik pioceds — God speed you— biave heaits and biawny aims — never mind the sickly doubting ciew ' Up the Mam Cieok considerable activity pievails of late The monster leef has not failed to diaw oiiteiDiise tn the base of its e\tiavagant dimensions Two companies Ime done some vei y oicditable woik in that locality— one nndci All. Diummond Hay. the othui undci All Gabble's management Both eompmips hsuo obtained \eiy F.ahsfactoiy pio^ptxfs, winch, if continued will lead to giaiul iCMilfcs by the enormous quant fcit j s of quait/ accumulated in that neighbninhood The CMstcncc of gold in the monster is tlieiefoia now asceitained beyond a doubt T wondei now, whethei "the depth" of it, 01 "of the leef," will be asceitained also? Occasional showti-. vaiv 0111 weeks of delightful, waim, sunny wcathiM. What .a diffeient place tln-> Coiomandel is, with thcloung sunshine playing on it, fiom the inaccessible logion it piesenti undoi a Mm cloud Yefc shall tins place become the ploasuic gionnd of Auckland, so soon as ovei wo will be able to satisfy eommoici.il consciences on the point that a Msit to it may gi\e scope to the one element uy nile of life — business fii^t and pleasuio afteiwaids Octobei 12 Some veiy noli specimons weie found >csteiday ; the findci's name is only known sub >ow, the locality only to himscU A boy also picked up a specimen of twihe ounces weight in the Main (Jioelc. A few new an lvals h.i\e made then appeaiance, and the waim weather is sine to thaw the numlniess of many a snmmei bnd, and incieasi sluntly oiu population genei illy Tlv liev. Mi Lanfcar held divine sen ice to-day, at Mi Ring's null Theie is something icmiikably impiesMvc m woislnp bowt; substituted foi common labouisin a place of e\eiv day's occupation It seems to bung homo to the mind moie fmcibly how the divine piesi'iico onteis into all oui concerns of lite — c\ci noai. invisibly — "then Msiblv " The cathcdial dome came-- tlie soul u]>waids by the st length ot majesty . the humble loof. the humble wm>hippeis the bumble seivint of Him once the humblest of men, symbolises the all compassing lmethat clasps em Hi and heivcn togrthoi Tlmt.y miles of a |omuey vcio t\u> pnee .at w Inch wp hid this unusual tv at Mi T.anteai lesules that distance up the Thames, and he is the neaie^t cleigvman to us

Wrwill m fiitnic mnnbei the listen of oui own coiicspondent, at Coiomandcl Wo do so .it oni coiicspondent's leqnost, who assiueb us that moie than one his uono astiay Pkotocr \.pns or nir Lytncit, by Mi Di\hs li.i\ o boon t ikon ami aie now on exhibition in Ins looms, Quern sheet «i>nl at Mi Vnfcy'* The pictuios aio "Befoie the Launch," and •' Five minutes aftci the Lciunc)] " Thoy aie coitamlv the best photogi iphs w o have scon taken in Auckland, and loilf-cfc gioat ciedit upon Mi. D.ivic-, as a. photogiapbic aitist Ciiuncurs W \> in> — The want of suftieientchinch aooommodation lias been gieatlv felt since the laige influx of population to Dunedm The Wclcvan, Rmscnpahan, Piosbytomn, and "Roman Catholio chin ohes wore last .Sunday ciowded to excess, and a'though cvoiy endea\oni -was made to piovide 100 m foi ail comeis, vniny of the places of public uoiship weie so ciouded tliat iiumbeis could not obtain admittance — Daihi Times "VnuTNTrrR Ba ' v vk —The auangementsmadc foi canying out the Volnnteci Bazaai, to be opened this day, at the Odd Follows' Hall, trivo piomiso of success to tho undertaking Attendance was given at the ITall yostoulav up to six o'clock, p m , for tho ipccipt of aiholes, ,in<l which will bo continued imtil twelve o'clock, this day when tho BT7ini will bo opened The hall will be decoi itcd with thus fiom the vessels in haibom , and tho nfles, swouls, and bayonets, of tho voluntcois will bo also employed to ornament the mtoi 101 of the hall The pioeecds of tho bazaar aie to be applied on behalf of the bind fund ; and as a genoi.il puiposos fund toy the volunteer. Wo icfor oni' loadeis' attention to advcitiscmonts inserted elsewheio for p.uticnlais as to pioceedings at the ba/.aai whilst open. A Nnv Tiuur ion Aucki \\n — By an extiaet fiom tho Southland AVc, winch wo publish elsewheio, it will be scon that bucks aio quoted at £12 to Cl^ pel thousand ; and that 2os per hun died weio asked foi TToh.ntown palings C'onsidonnfj the extent to which the minufaetmo of biicks is earned on m and around Vuckland, and the unlimited supply of clay suited foi the pumose, wo think some of out eiiteipiisnin; biickmakeis should chaitoi a vessel and make a, ventme of bucks as an aiticle of expoit Tlieie is one "cntleimn >ye have in our eye, whoso bricks, manufactui ed some distance up tho Waitemita, would bo ceitam to give a good name to Auckland, weie thoy sent into the •Southern maiket: and when it is considered th.it Tnvoieaigill and Rivet ton aie thepoits fm the new and extensive gold-field, known as the Tv^okoniai digijiiigs, the oeitainty of an uici easing demand is ensuied Fi eight fiom Diinedm to Tnveicaigill is 70s per ton A small ateamei is engaged on the ti ule l^o^iidmg the se.ucity in Inveicarcill of evciy descnption of timber, we think the hint is enough to the entorpiising classes of Arckland Thoie must be an inei easing maiket at the BlufF, TJlveiton, anrl Invcicarpill. B \nk or Nnw Zr,\L vnd. — Our advei tisiug columns have all cad v given intimation of the fact, that tho Dnectors of the New Zealand Bank intend to commence building almost immediately Tondeis ate to be sont in by tho 30th instant We recently no ticed tho ai i lval of Mr Mason, who is to supoi intend the election of the Bank buildings in all the Piovinces, and who is now of the firm of Mason and Eoss Yesteiday we hail an oppor unity of inspecting the designs, and can speak of them with unqualified approbation The edifices intended to be erected heie, when completed, will be a great oinament to the city The design is of a composite chaiacter. Tho elevation to Piinces-stieet, will in cent a facade of 60 feet long and 48 feet high. The principal entianee to the public office is fiom tho side. It is deeply lecessed within an aich, sup ported by columns and ci owned by a balustiade and handsome thice light windows. The coiner to Eattiay-sti ret is circular, and the elevation on that Hide 40 feet lmig, will have an imposing effect ; the uppei story being suppoited by columns, and anteeiowned with an arched pediment The whole of tho lower p.ut ot tho building h liisticated and ciowned with a dcntilled coimeo Tho design intended for Wellington, is of the (Joiintluan oidoi, and as the gionnd is of an aw I< waul tuangulai shape, groat skill, we think, has been displayed in adapting tho building to tho aite. — Olar/o Colonist.