THE CROMWELL REEFS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 6

THE CROMWELL REEFS.

(From the " Guardian.")

During tVie past week more active work has been done towards establishing the true character of the Bendigo Gully Reefs than. aIL -the work put together sinee 'the" date of Cdlelough's discovery. In the Aurora claim, which' is ! now pretty well opened out, a seventh share was purchased by Messrs. B. Cooper and T. M'Morraii, for the sum of £1050. The machinery is nearly complete, and the first crushin?; expected to take place at the end of the year. ' Mr. George Murray's application for> water- rights was granted at the last meeting of the Warden^ Court. • The ultimate object is to construct a battery with no fewer than thirty head of stamps. In tho first instance 'a smaller number will be set agoing, and we are assured that no unnecessary delay will tal*e place in getting the machine to work. This is a project upon which the development of the reefs to a great extent d:pen<ls. "Without a public crushing machine the work cannot be completed, and the real value of tho reefs ascertained. In granting the water-rightf!, Mr. Warden Pylce recognised this fact, and expressed a decided opinion in favour of the project. Mr. Bates is at present on the ground effecting the necessary survey. The" live head of new stamps fofl Logan's machine have arrived, and the engineer went up yesterday to superintend tho fitting up. In Colclough's claim they- are sinking alongside the lead. At present they are down about forty feet, and in whatever place they tap the reef cold is visible to 'the naked eye. At Nos. 1, 2, and 3,- east from Gillie?" Golden Crown, reef has been struck, and a very satisfactory prospect obtained. No. 2 is known as tho Saxby claim, nnd la^t night we were shewn a splendid prospect washed of the rubble casing. Amongst the other claims a similar activity is evinced, still those nia,y bo set down as the chief events of iLs week.

"Wtiehe is Lawrence Olipitats't. — Mr. Oliphanfc was a, world-wide traveller, and related his adventures in several excellent l:oo!\», and was a highly valued contributor to " Blaclovcod's Magazine ; " lie served Lord Elgin as secretary in his famous embassy to China ; subsequently he wont to Japan, where, he was dangerously wounded in an attack by the natives on the British Location ; ho returned to England, and \v s elected M.P. for the Stirling District in 1865. Young (he was born in 1S20), distinguished, accomplished-, any position in life seemed possible for him. and his friends and constituents reckoned with confidence on a,J>rilliaut political career. But, he had fallen under a strange influence. About 1800 there came to- England from New York a. preacher named Thomas "Lake Hrtrrfe, with claims to intimncy with the spiritual Avorld surpassing those of Hwedenhorg himself. Gradually Mr. Olipha-nt bocamo convinced of the veracity of Harris, and of tho, importance of his revelations, and in proof of -his sincerity resigned his scat in Parliament, renounced all his worldly prospects, and enrolled himself in the " Brotherhood of the New Life." Of the community socalled, we know lift le, save that it recognises in T. L. Harris tl>o "War of Christ, and that every member thereof submits to his will with unflinohinu: obedience. The Brotherhood are settled on a large estate named Brocfon on the New York bank of Lake I^mp, and occupy themselves in .agricultural labour, chiefly vine culture, and, doing everything for. themselves, keep bo servants. Mr. Oliphant's mother, Lady Oliphant, we believe, preceded her son in the community, which "includes not a few from the upper classes of "English and American society. — " The North .Londoner,." »

Immolation of Cjiignoxs. — A great noise was heard the other morning in one of t!ie most elegant houses of the Rue de Jlivoli, Paris, and soon after the people thus attracted before the doorway saw a man rushing downsta're with an inulefinable bundle 'of things in one hand and a bottle in the other. He threw down the bundle in the middle of the courtyard, and pour.d upon it the contents of the bo'"tle, to which he set fire, causing the whole to blaze furiously. Several women were then heard crying and sobbing upstairs in the most pitiful manner. It turned out afterwards that the gentleman has a wj c and three daughters, who evince an immoderate love for false chignons. They, possessed already twenty .of artificial ornaments, and were go^ngto purchase four, more, when the anijry husband and. .father, ty*ed of bein<x continually called upon. to 'satisfy such an extraordinary taste^frtr chignons, seized the whole stock, trot -a bottle of netroleum, an 4 se-fc the false hair biazincr £U.,'.'fche court

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