COROMANDEL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 427, 27 September 1869, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

♦■ (From the Thames Times Correspondent.') Since my last letter nothing of great importance has taken place. People still keep , flocking to Ci-romandel, and I should say there are at least 15CO p ople now on the ground. Business is pretty brisk, and new buildings are being erected. I give you a curtailed a count of how a few claims visited yesterday are {retting on. The Iv&nhoe are putting in a tunnel, in which they have already crossed two ( r three leaders looking very promising. This claim consists of six men's ground, and is situated next to the Old Kentucky, which is a ciaim of eight men's ground. Two large whares have been erected on the ground, besi.ies a blacksmith's forge. They have commenced tunnels on the Kennedy's Bay and Coromandel sides of the range, with the intention of diiving right through the hill. The Hit or Mi9s is a claim of seven men's ground; they are also tunnelling in two different places. The Bermuda, two men's ground, lvis a tunnel in about 50ft., and they have come across two or three leaders, in which a little gold has been found. The Scotia comprises six men's ground, and as we arrived at their claim they struck a new leader, from which very fair prospects were obtained. As it was ouly struck in the evening, there was no time to open up the leader further, but the shareholders were in high spirits about their claim. The All Nations No. 1, eight men's ground, and one of the first claims taken up, is one of the bestworked claims on the g ound. They have a drive in about sixty feet, but they do not expect to come upon gold until they are in sixty or seventy feet further; but, juigin^ from pi'esent indications, they anticipate to get very rich gold when they do strike it. Work has been carried on vigourously in nil claims on the Kennedy's Bay side, and shareholders are very sanguine as to their claims repaying them well for their labour. On the Coromandel side of the range, the favourite line comprises the Harbour View, Matchless, Wakaroa, and fuketutu, these claims are also being worked with a will. The shareholders of the Wakaroa claims, however, are more fortunate than their neighbours, as they h tve secured the water right and mill site, which ere long will, undoubtedly, be a very valuable property. Several other claims, also in this locality, are now getting into working order. Whilst pegging out the Shooting Star, two very fair specimens were picked vp — this claim adjoins the Puketutu and Royal Alfred. There are a great number of claims at work on Paul's Creek way. Amongst others I may mention the Hudson, eight men's ground, the Captain Cook, six men's ground, and the Julius Yogel, twenty men's ground. From the latter claim great results are anticipated.