The Monnatairi Goldmining Company resumed operations yesterday. About Thursday will see all repairs completed both in mine and battery, when crushing will be again resumed. All the other companies are again in full swing, but up to the present there is nothing special to report. When Mr Greenwood, of land boom fame returned to the scene of his earliest experiments at Auckland, and proceeded at once to form a thousand pounds syndicate to prospect at Coolgardie, all the wise-acres of Queen-street shook their heads and said it would never " come off." Hut tho prophets of evil did not know what a lot of "go" was left in the old war horse. Tho money was got, a first-class engineer and assayer with prospectors w«re despatched to the field of operations, and now the welcome I nows has come that a six foot reef, show ing gold freely, has been struck. It is a pity that the same energy and monpy were not spont on our own goldfields, which offer just as groat attractions as those of the far west-, but Coolgardio was ihe fashion just then. Our turn is com ing on, and we hear that the great pro moter has secured a big lino in the Upper Thames district, which is to bo put on the market shortly.
