COROMANDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1518, 6 October 1868, Page 6

COROMANDEL.

BIOH GOLD STRUCK. (PBOM OTTB OWN COBEESPONDENT.) October 2. The parly of men now working the "Nil Desperandum" have struck a fine gold bearing leader, which they say bids fair to rival some of the crack claims in yhortland. One of the shareholders, "who has been working manager in Hunt's claim since the opening of the -Thames goldfield, has no hesitation in saying, from whafc stuff he has tested on the claim gince coming to Coromandel a day or two ago, it will yield at the very least 309 ounces to the ton. He has had a site surveyed on the claim for a crushing machine, the water-right, granted, and is now returning by this vessel to bring down the machinery and hare it erected at once.

Parties of. six and oieht are still prospecting -vigorously in the Matawai, Paul's Creek, and Bay, in great hopes of soon finding good leaders ;.but the weather has been greatly against prospecting in the bush for the lußt two months, being very cold and wet, which rather tends to. damp the spirits of the men: However, they are quite •satisfied in Rood weather with what they get in sluicing the creeks, besides the prospects of finding the leader from which the gold is thrown into the creek. The Kapacga returns for this month are 140 ozs.

(PBOir ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) . . October 2. There is little to report from this district, which is becoming gradually deserted. I cannot even hear of a frog or a gigantic gooseberry. Our total male population does not much exceed fifty, and we aro all bo well bob.aved that the constable haa a sinecure. The only two claims working are Kapanga and the Bil Desperandum. In the latter they have a good enow, and are about to erect machinery. The Kapanga sent up about 138 ounces of gold yesterday. The twa hundred and forty feet level, or No. 4, as it is flailed, is now seven hundred feet long, and the manager intends carrying it two hundred feet further north, for the purpose of getting under the rich ground formerly found in the Albion lead.

I am glad to say that a subscription is being raised in aidof the fund for the support and education of the widow and orphans of our former fellow-miner the late Major Von Tempsky.

Ideal "Women.—ln all countries the ideal woman changes, chameleon-like, to suit the taste of men ; and the great doctrine that her happiness does somewhat depend on his liking is part of the very foundation of her existence. According to his will she is bond or free, educated or ignorant, lax or strict, housekeeping or roving; and though we advocate neither the bondage nor the ignorance yet> we hold to the principle that, by the laws which regulate all human communities everywhere she is bound to study the wishes of man, and to mould her life in harmony with his liking. No society "can get on in which there is total independence of sections and members, for society is built up on the mutual independence of all its sections and all its members. Hence the defiant attitude which women Tiave lately assumed, and their indifference to the wishes and remonstrances of men, cannot lead to any good results whatever. It is not the revolt of slaves against their tyrants—in that we could sympathize—which they have begun, but against their -duties. And this it is which makes things 30 deplorable. It is the vague restlessness, the fierce ■extravagance, the neglect of home, the indolent fine Jadyism, the passionate love of pleasure which characterise the modern woman, that saddens men .and destroys in them that respect which their verv pride prompts them to feel. And it is the paiuful conviction that the ideal woman of truth and modesty, and simple love and homely living has somehow faded a'.vay under the paint and tinsel of this modern reality whicli makes us speak out a3 we Lave done, in the hope, perhaps a forlorn one, that if ■she could be made to thoroughly understand what men think of her, she would, by the very force of natural instinct and social necessity, order herself in some accordance with the lost ideal, and become again what we once loved and what we all regret Saturday Review.

IItPEOMPTtT. By pert London journals we see it is said Celeßte's now enacting the " Woman in Red That this is a blunder must clearly bo seen 3Tor millions will vouch that Celeste's eysr-greea »