COROMANDEL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2595, 2 May 1877, Page 2

COROMANDEL.

This day,

Kapang-a.-—Gettting out 3 good stoae from the winze and drive. The mine generally is looking well.

New Golden Pah.—Out a small leader showirg good gold, and a large one show* ing gold^at the bottom of the shaft. rExpect this to be the original Golden Pah leader, and good results are expected when the shaft is deepened. ; ; r

A requisition by storekeepers and inhabitants generally to Gap tain -Casey, soliciting him to keep the steamer Kina on the Coromandel trade, and promising him .every support, is being signed.

The following items are from last night's Auckland Star, forwarded by correspondents :— ; Punedin; This day. A discovery has been made of a depbsit of ; tich aiinferouß dirt at.Doctor's -Pointj eight miles below Alexandra, and is .;' causing sonic, .^attention.. \\ The discoverers with very rude, appliances, in three weeks obtained nearly £IC3 worth of gold,, equal to £15; per week per man, and have made a larger find since. At Black salad named Stone was thrown from a horse, and remained unconscious since Sunday week. Although his brain is thoroughly inactive the other senses appear quite active. Froni the evidence at the inquest on Goldsmith, who hung himself, it appeared that deceased was a man of quiet disposition and, industrious, sober habits. He was afflicted with a drunken, worthless wife. She dissipated all his surplus campings in djrink, and ordered him about like a dog, and made his life miserable. Buring the past fortnight Mrs Goldsmith .was enjoying a continuous spree, and on Saturday night she and. a- female neighbor- resumed their orgies, on account of which Goldsmith and his wife had high words for a quarter of an hour. Quietness ensued, it hen ai loud. thud' ). of falling ibody was heard. Immediately Mrs Goldsmith rushedpputt t saying her husband had hanged himself, and she had cut him down. When the police arrived, deceased was breathing, but speechless. He lay on the floor in a sitting position, with his head bolstered against the bed,; and the rope fastened round ihe bedroom door. Mrs Goldsmith had been awakened, from her sleep by the sound of something kicking against the door. She thjen found her husband hanging up by the heck. The coroner suggested that deceased had been driven to desperation by the conduct of his wife

Letters received here state that the English Cricketers received £300 a man as the result of their visit to the Colonies.