COROMANDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 317, 17 November 1864, Page 5

COROMANDEL.

["COM M l"N I CATK.P ] iUtli November, Af.TllOiTtii as X told you ji short time mucc, tho accounts from these iields were not so full of interest us usual, J have no doubt erelong, they will be replete with interest, not but that the stagnation (if ! may he allowed the expression) that reigned for sonic time in our mining world, still exists. By last steamer I.NO ounces of gold from JSo. o Claim, were trauMivitted to Auckland, this amount was extracted from about forty-live tons of quart/. The inundie tailings of this body of quartz sivc expected to contain about six ounces of the precious metal. The reason of tailings being so rich is no do bt attributed to the fact of the large quantity of muudic which the stone contains, this Mouc I should mention conies from what is termed the .No. 1 leader of the OoUUn Toint Claim. These No. 5 tailings, will iirst go through the huddling process, then] be submitted to the calcining and by means of it to the before mentioned machinery there are from lifiy to sixty tons from this claim, and will e:e b ng lies crushed, unforiunately however, owing to circumstances, tho A.Q.C Company's machimry is ler a time stopped, so that for the moment. J am unabicto communicate the result of the crushing, but will do so when it is accomplished. The moat manly or' Knglish sports, c.icket, is making rapid progre.-s down here, a club has for some time bee)) in exiMcnce ; the members there are of course principally diggers, and amongst them there are soin-j very line players. The practice day of the club is on Wednesday, and tho jioid day on Saturday, on ihe lattor day at. about two o'clock p.m., a large number of diggers assembled on the cricket ground of the club which is opposite to the j\oyal Hotel, Kapanga. Our roads are in qco and likely to remain mi, I think Coromandcl will be sick of being promised improvements. Tor my part, J think that these promises are of that particular kind whieh has be likened to that, very pleasant edible (when made of good materials and well made) called pie-crust. XVc indeed have been s rnek with the advice that we hhoidd put not our trusts in Superintendents or in any child of man.