COROMANDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 66, 29 January 1864, Page 4

COROMANDEL.

J [risoM a L'o:int-:si>i)xiiKXT.] j January '22. I Ai.i. is ipiiet in this district. Mining operations are going on .steadily. Xu, I struck their loader a few days"ago which,'from its boarimrs, goes through Xo. •1, thcAlbion, and the Victoria claims. Little' is- said about the reef, but Irom the fact that the proprietors ol'Xo. I have, ollered. or are abor.l. to offer a large sum for one or both of theabovc claims, there cannot hi; a doubt but that the reef is rich. The crushiii" machine of Xo. 1 will soon b<; in working order ; Xo! r> are at v.oi'.c i,, earnest. The Albion has coinmriu-ed a new siiaft under the able, .superintendence; of Mr. i Turner. A new claim to S.K. of Xo. i> i.i heiu" ! worked by a parly who seem in omue.-i, and are ex- ; good returns. Some other parlies ale out I the ivkewhau per Sydney'.' n'ro■ "a"ain i g-oiu: back to work in the same locality, and i'roni the , kiiowledirc, abiiitv ami p..r.-evcrance of many of the ! present diggers, we ~,; 1V ]„,)„, u 1:lf \, y ,].,. end of the ■ summer many rich deposit:, will come to light. Last i year was too much taken up in .-peculation, uiul j almost all the wviv looking to others for : supplies, and tlit-ieioie did not, care what became ot : tin; claims. I hope that at the present time Ihi.- ! shareholders vill display j. x ,orl judgement in the ! election of directors, anil that they in their j turn will do the same in emploing men us managers who thoroughly nnilcrstaml gold mining operations, so that the money spoilt in labour may not be wasted as was the- case last year. A few managers well understood what ihuv were at, ami the con'sei|ueiico was that the claims that they worked paid, but oth.-r.s wore managed, one bv a milkman, another by a third I rate oaipeuU r. oue'by a blacksmith, a third by a ! plouirhmur. ju-t from the lkicl, ..n.; by a draper's ussis.ty.ut, mid oti'j bv :i bariui'U. Tiivvj mvn perli'ips

may he well enough in their own trades, hut to put them to direct gold mining operations without either practical or theoretical knowledge was more than madness. The only fitness that they could boast of was the residence of a few weeks on the diggings ond a few minors phrases which they hail picked up. This alone constituted them experienced diggers in tin; opinion of town .-harohoUlers, but it is now to bo ! hoped that ''once bitten (hoy will be twice shy." I But although thai, up to tlu< present lhu.ro have, been I many failures, then; are rich results in store, but it ; must bo experienced labour and steady pejsove- : ranee that will succeed, without this no good will be ! obtained.