Ib would seem probable tha l these Workings were abandoned from the sime cause which has driven recent explorer back from the country further north, i*i MUabele Laud and Ersteling fields, viz , the hostility of the natives, who prevented stvcral parties from taking away specimens of gold. When proper machinery is ere ted on these new goldfields their value wil be increased many times, the diggers at employed there b&ing satisfied to use derely the pick and shovel, and to wash ;he "stuff" in rude appliances, through wbo'i a large quantity of gold is lost. In one c?<? a correspondent of the Friend of the Fee State reports that "Quartzis thrown a*ay when actually gold ia discernible to the joked eye,"

In view bf tlie. didthond craze in biiry, ,the, following abstract from a letter to the Bosioii Journal, ferny be read with interest:— Colored diamonds are supposed to be manufactuffed nowadays for tha unwary, bun I Heard of a new d,odge lash week., A photographer Who has had considerable experience in expert detective easeS said to me : " We have a neW use for photography, the testing of precious atones., The business began ih this way : One' day last week a diamond expert with qfuite a repu tation in the business was asked fry a stranger to buy a remarkably fine' diamond. Eight thousand dollars was asked for it.' Th'e,expert tested it in every manner Known to' tpe business and examined it carefully, with a glass. It was a magnificient stone of superb color acd shape. He offered sevenf triousaind dollars' for it, and tHe man took the money and went scway. A day or two after that the stone wa's shown esf a.greM bargain to so'rtie other .experts,- oWe 6i .whdm, afce'# examining it cloudy for si lefag time, declared that there something Very peculiar inf the way in Which the light went through the tfto'ne. The oWner was advised 1;o take it toT me and have ft tested by a ray of sunlight sent through a? o'amera. It was brought td my studio v>ith several oth'ef di'am'oricra, and, whereas oire diamond wo'uld allo'w ai beam of light to pj2?s through it clea#' and straight, the 7000d'ol stone seerric'i! to liai'e something in it which stopped the beano. 