Notes from Coromendel.

Thames Star, Volume xii, Issue 3852, 4 May 1881, Page 2

Notes from Coromendel.

Since our last visit to Corotuandel, a great change for the better seems to have come over the district. Everywhere we fiud improvements in the buildings taking place, and various business places bed changed hands. Foremost among those who have recently bought and jnade, large and axpensive alterations may be mentioned Captain Waterman, lately of Queen stree*. Auckland, Travellers or visiting families will find accommodation in this establishment equal to anything in Auckland. In fact, the hotel, with its surroundings, appears almost too good for the place, considering the present population ; however, the increase of miners end others is daily becoming more evident, aud, apparently, it is only a matter of time for the plucky proprietor to realise all he anticipates. Mr Boyd is also making great improvements iv the Coromaiidel hotel, in { order to meet the requirement a of the times. Mr Wool lams has changed the ' appearance of • nuinher of buildings by pajnting cud adding to them. Altogether there is an appreciable change, nor is this change confined to th« township, as upon visiting the JSfc-i we found * large hotel oft. t tbf dividing range, besides a butpher'* shop and two. or tjjree stofei, most substantially built of sawn timber. On the whole; erepvtbJQg seems to an, a?pecj; of cqmirjg prosperity. We Vegfet, however, fa state "that while proceeding to the Tiki we found the engine for the battery had got some little dis tance off the road, through the breakage of _the ropes aud .tackle, and the weather being bad, some loss of U me uiu»t of necessity take place before the machinery is on the ground. With regard to the - --tßtt—-claims generally, they •re showing in p as well as ever, and liernan is gettiu^ out first rate stone-— as the drive is coutiuued. Biackmore, Heeuau, Barrett, McLeod, McDonald,

Maori Will, and adjacent mines are also getting oat good payable stone, 0™ Blackmore's claim we saw in the Bank ot New Zealand to-day blocks of stone, weighing from twenty to fifty pounds, each, gold showing freely all over them. We also visited the Kapanga mine, and were courteously shown over it (in the absence of .Captain Thomas) by Captain Andrews and Mr Barry. &rerZ' thing here is in first-rate trim, and tne shaft is now down three hundred ana .-jnety feet, the ground being much easier , During the sinking of the last ninety feet one or two small leaders have been met with, but the lowering of the shaft to live hundred feet is the principal object of the manager at the present time. When that distance is reached^ a few feet will bring them on to the underlie of the lode, when they will commence to rise to the old workings, where more than two, tpns..of gold was obtained before the present company had possession. In. the Bismarck also a wonderful improvement has taken place, as the low level is sending forth first-rate stuff, and a short time hence the To k a tea may be expected to have the old run of gold, from which so many thousand ounces were taken. Judging, altogether since our l»st visit, we should say that Coromandel was en the eve of a prosperous era, and nothing would gratify us more thin to know that our prognostica tious were fulfilled. We had almost forgotten- to mention that a chemist and druggist's shop, under the auspices of Messrs Hoolon and Ward, has beefi opened, and a large display of drugs and chemicals are already on the shelves. Two hairdressers have also started to keep pace with the advancing tide of immigration. .