(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) OTAGO DIGGINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1121, 25 July 1865, Page 4

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) OTAGO DIGGINGS.

Queenstown via Invkrcakgili,. Monday, noon. Another rich reef at Skippers opened, three miles from the Scandinavian. Fourteen miles of retf known to exist. Arrow Quartz Reef five feet through— stone very rich. Former vein found to be only a large leader. Great excitement ruling. Chhistchukch, Monday, 4.30 p.m. Ship Indian Empire arrived yesterday, after passage of 96 days. There were no deaths on hoard. One birth. She brings 183 immigrants. The An for Protection of Wild Fowl, brought into force in Canterbury.

The Faix op Cbinoune in Fbaijck.— "Down with crinoline!" is the actual war-cry of the beau monde of Paris. The Style Empire is to be once more the costume ala mode. Trains, short waists, and men's hats with curly brims and cockades at the sides, such as we see in the old-fashioned plates by Carle and Horace Vernet, have already been patronised by that class of females in whose honor the Bohemian ball was lately given; but this preposterous attire has been hitherto looked upon only as a fresh outburst of whimsical impertinence on the part of those whose vocation it is to be insolent. Xow, however, the solemn sanction of the great faubourgs is .sought for the revival of telescopic skirts and waists that are no waists at all. At the promenade of Longchamps it is anticipated that several of the | acknowledged leaders of rank and fashion will make their appearance in the habiliments of the French Empire; and, after that, it is confidently asserted, all Europe will hasten to follow the example set by imperial Paris. We beg our good friends on the other side of the water to believe that nothing of the kind will take place. One thing alone is enough to make U9 believe that the reports touching the contemplated revolution in costume are exaggerated ; it is the fact mentioned by our Paris correspondent that a crinoline worth eighty pounds sterling has lately been on view at a fashionable modiste's in Paris. Surely, if the article be indeed doomed, outlays so extensive would not be hazarded. Against the exorbitant use of crinoline we have time and again inveighed. We have no desire to see skirts like hencoops or like diving-bells perpetuated; but there is a medium in all things, and the dress of the proposed revival trenches rather too narrowly on no dress at all. As soon shall we think of disrobing entirely, and daubing ourselves with the v/oad used by our British ancestors, as of permitting our wives, daughters and sweethearts to appear in the diaphanous costume of Canova's three graces. Crinoline is quite bad enough, and has to an undue extent enlightened us respecting the not faultless ankles of femininity; but the Style Empire, affording, as it does, barely a covering for the limbs, is, we consider, infinitely worse. We have no wish to quarrel with the French for their many madnesses in matters of toilette; and nogreat harm would be done in England, were our ladies to adopt—if they were foolish enough—the false red hair or the diamond and gold,powder so largely patronised just now in Paris; but the line must really be drawn somewhere, and the Style Empire is decidedly on the- wrong side of the boundary of demarcation."— Daily Telegraph, AT >HE EOOM.