COROMANDEL. (FROM THE "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.) November 10.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3819, 15 November 1869, Page 4

COROMANDEL. (FROM THE "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.) November 10.

ELfCTTONFEKINO parties are now busy canvassing for their different clienta. The gene-al opinion hereia that Mr. John Williamson will be elect 1, but not by a great majority. It i 3 [jleasiug to havo to vote prospecting is going on in a great many claims. On Ihe other haud laige tracts are takeu in lease, w'th no apparent intention on the parb of the lessee of prosj cting, which tends to irritata tbe more humble digger, who may choose to occupy and prospect his picse of laud. Out of a number of claims lately reported to have struck gold, the Eclip3e is c :ond to none of them. The leader from which such splandid specimens have been taken of late was cut after diiving some thirty-five fe , The shareholders expect to have a specimen crusting before Christina-, a they have a quantity of specimens now od hand, and are still taking from the leader which runs on an angle with tht claim, and gives the shareholders nearly five hundred feet of the lead. The Royal Standard : There are two drives thirty- five and fifty-six fccfc respective'y* out at present nothing hps beea struck to attract much attention. The Lord of the Isles : They are driving oa a, leader nearly the whole width of the drive, which is now in twenty feer. The Port Phillip: They have put in a drive two hundred feet, and another thirty feet, and several leadeis have been cut, which look well.