CGROMANDEL.

West Coast Times, Issue 1971, 24 January 1872, Page 3

CGROMANDEL.

(From the Southern Cross.) The Specimen Hill, one of the Wynyardton claims, whose excellent jield I noticed in my last letter, is still crushing at the Nil Desperandum battery. The show in the plates is as good as the former crushing, and the present one will turn out quite as good as the first. They are sending up from three to four tons daily.

\ The Prince Charles, a claim to the eastward of the Specimen Hill, has struck the leader, and when I saw it on Monday it was over two feet wide, »nd the walls on either side were well defined. A small stone crushed in a mortar and washed, gave a small prospect, thus showing that it still carried gold. The Green Flag, a claim on the other side of the Specimen Hill, are driving for the leader, and expect to cut it in a few days. The whole of the ground from the old Kapanga to the beach at Wynyardton, is now marked out, and will be shortly worked by an active and busy population. The Golden Point, a claim on the old Kapanga ground, have been getting a few specimens. The shareholders are now taking from the wiuzes of the old Kapanga stuff which had been used to fill up, and which has been found to yield nearly an ounce to the ton. With the aid of a small machine this claim would be a very payable one, as they have some thousands of tons from the old Kapanga stopes available for crashing. The manager of the Pride of Tokatea informs me that he is still on gold, and scarcely a day passes without getting a few specimens.