COLONIAL NEWS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hobart Town, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1286, 25 September 1880, Page 2

COLONIAL NEWS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hobart Town, Friday.

Liect.-Col. St. Hill, late Private Secretary to the Governor, has been allowed to retire on pension.

A special reporter lately telegraphed,, after investigation, tnat the whole of the Temoragoldfieldispayableandpermanent. dome claimholders told him that they were' picking- suffiicient from the wash-dirt topay them well. One party obtained l©j! ozs. in this way for a weeks work, without water. The gold is very patchy, however. The average sinking is fiom sixty to eighty feet. Nothing has yet been discovered to warrant the report of rich reefs. The Bloom of Aok. — A good woman never grows old. Years may pass over her head, but if benevolence and virtue dwell in her heart she is as cheerful as when the spring of life first opened to her view. When we look upon a good woman we never think of her age ; she 1 looks as charming at when the rose of youth first bloomed on her cheek. Thatrose has not faded yet ; it will never fade. In her neighbourhood she is tho' friend and benefactor. Who does nat respect and love the woman who !*&&» passed her days in acts of kindness aad mercy— who has been the friend of man and God — whose whole life has been a scene of kindness and love and a devotion to truth? We repeat, such a woman cannot grow old. She will always be fresh and buoyant in spirits, and active in humble deeds of mercy and benevolence. If the young lady desires to retain the bloom and beauty of youth let her not yield to the sway of fashion and folly ; let her love truth and virtue ; and to the close of her life she will retain those feahnga which now make life appear a garden of sweets— ever fresh ami ever new,