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Evening Star, Issue 3018, 21 October 1872, Page 4

Splendid Yields. —The Westport and Clreymouth papers give the following cheering news from the Lyell and Irangahna reefs:—“ Beefton, October 2—The Little Wonder claim at the Lyell yielded B'iOozs. melted gold from S3 tons stone—The trial crushing of the Inglewood claim gave 53ozs. to “27 tons. Mace’s third crushing was completed on Wednesday last, and 280 tons yielded about GOOozs. —Toe crushing for the United Band of Hope of 3D tons of stone yield 4lozs. Lxlwt. of gold.—The Ajax Company washed up on Thursday, and the result was a cake of clean retorted gold, weighing (jU2ok3. lodwt.’’ The Victoria Industrial Schools, —A eommi sion recently formed in Victoria for the purpose of enquiring into the working of the penal establishments and industrial schools of that Colony, recommends the discontinuance of the latter institutions. These schools are described in the report of the commission as having been commenced in a hurried manner, under pressure of circumstances ; many of their original defects still adhere to them ; and no adequate and fitting provision is made for the industrial training of the inmates. The commission declares that the system does not work well, either for the state or the children ; that the number of children left destitute by reckless parents is increased by means of it ; that it entails a very largo and ever augmenting public expenditure, which might be materially lessened by the adoption of another plan of disposing of the children: that the principle of maintaining large charitable schools at the public cost has been condemned by the experience of other countries; and that its tend ncy, bo hj there and elsewhoie. is to increase and perpetuate, rather than check and dimini hj, the growth of juvenile pauperism and crime. The recommendations arc, in substance, that the existing industrial school system shall be discontinued, and the plan of boarding-out destitute children in their own localities substituted for it; and that local provision, supplemented by -State bounty, shall for their maintenance.