Show ALIAS GOLD tha Kom antio career if alioa core will olumn 7 ims one of the moat remarkable women of the present day is alias alice cornwell home in Eng lanil she at abo of nine came over with her father and mother to new bealand Xe aland where uncil tho age of seventeen she remained unconsciously ly pre pairing herself scholas at a ladies school in dune lin marys manor lodge school for which were to tho whole world she was not at school considered a very brilliant girl neither did she in those days possess extraordinary personal attractions but ehe gained for herself the sincerest bince rest and warmest esteem of her companions in whose m nida alice was associated always with goodness and amiability miss rowell remained in dunedin until ahe was seventeen and when ehe bade bood by to new zealand to accompany her parents to victoria she left behind her ties and friendships which today to day remain unshaken and unaltered the stranger on introduction does not detect in her mauner consciousness or ad iou no one who knew not of her fame would imagine her from external indications to bo the possessor of three quarters of a million sterling she ij as polite and agreeable in manner to a pauper as to n noble mac she ia ever ready to give her undivided attention to the ideas suggestions or schemes of any oue bo he ever BO humble in circenis cir cunis stances and scheme have merits and bo practicable the lady will promise to give st her beat consideration aud she will too the subject of this notice married int Victoria an old man a member ot by name john whiteman the union does not appear however to bave been a singularly happy oue from the that alie pair have been living apart for the last ten years and her parents in order to get her away from surroundings which must necessarily have been ant and to her bent her to a college in london where for a time she devoted herself bously to the study of music and art and where subsequently she published three or lour songs but after passing several in aej gaining honors in literature her academic career wag suddenly brought to an untimely end one morning by her receiving from mr cornwell a cablegram announcing noun cing the death of her mother whose dying injunction was that alice should resume her maiden name and a that she would return to victoria her father was in ballaran ballarat Ball arat at the time and had become heavily involved in mining speculations ho bad sunk in BO manta be based from sir and libil had nu return it was at this little that the energy and of character cordwell Co first di played themselves anil to borne extent shadowed forth the brilliant financial career the beginning cf which was soon to allow in alio llio wake of these event sir would appear to have brought about an abnormally phenomenal change in hia daughter a clrar acter and ironi the dreanie drea sentimental young woman whose interest was concen in her studies eho suddenly became a matter of lad woman of tho world full of aia bilion imagination ayd energy she had tho interests of hi r bamily at heart and devol edher whole time to thinking oit ait projects which should their fallen fortunes she frit that the only M tty by she could successfully tb n would be to use her own words to make abu estado iu which tho money hail been sunk return so having posted herself up in all tho geological details of the anil having aitor much inquiry satisfied herself that gold did exist in its vicinity she formulated A scheme by which she could carry her ideas into money was borrowed and a shaft sunk and within n foot of the boiu I 1 she had indicated the course of the lead was struck this was tho starling of her mining career erward she became connected with numerous other mining in new south balei bill in no instance where she had not inspected and improved the claim the idea of revisiting london in the interests of gold mining was suggested to her by alio llio late lady brassey then on a tour of the colonies who pointed out to her ahti and advantages she would meet with in the gibat metropolis for floating mines of such H character at the madas the lady also invited miss cornwell to visit her should she repair to london home accordingly she went and madas for five times over wa heating by her for pound of which the received pounds net abu enterprise it WM of course that made alias cornwell ao publicly known miss returned to am aralia in april of last year chuny for the purpose of to use her own words a the management in handling over the leases quickly to the new company having done tin she journeyed through queensland for the purpose of on information for her popular london paper tho sunday tinus during the trip the byong wyong which ehe thoroughly inspected and explored wai purchased by her for the estate covers an area of acre a railway line runs through it there in a frontage to a lake of twelve miles and a frontage to a river of fourteen miles in some pats of tho estate is a rich loam thirty or forty feet in depth and it possesses an abundance of thu finest timber in new sout Wales cedar mahogany etc from geological reports il is estimated that are tons of gas coal on the estate abid the profit on this if worked is further estimated in rounded figured at pounds on it are a railway station and 11 township already surveyed mis burnwell Curn well contemplates raising pounds in london for the purpose of work ing and developing their properly and hopes in two years to see on it iu full work four and four collies bo sanguine is eho of the ultimate she will allend the developing and working of this property and ehe has decided to retain or one third of the shares of lie company she i about tu flat in lindou numerous other ventures are engaging the mind nud attention offis cordwell Co at abo present but with them wo have neither nor time to deal it may be mentioned however that bo has partners in london sydney melbourne and adelaidle Adelai ile as well ag private offices in each of these place miss cornwell is at thirty if not a prepossessing woman at least not unhandsome her face and feature somewhat irregular and i undefined it is true harmonize well with her and well defined figure which is inclined rather to be embonpoint embon point than blender her principal charms lie perhaps in alie trueness tru eneas of her eyes and her gracious well bred manner those qualities it was doubt that assisted her materially in london in floating midas no one could look into ayea like hers and doubt the truth of her utterances but she has other charms still she has a soft womanly voice which even a blind mau would associate with i character earnest and sincere high intellectual attainments tain ments perceptive faculties of a high order strong and human feelings kindliness 0 disposition go to make up a character harmoniously combining qualities that arc w fortunately rarely ever met with in a single individual such is alice cornwell at thirty euch is her career alius far much inte attracted just now in the latest of miss cornwellsr cornwells Corn wells plucky commercial ventures a new smelter invented by two germans from freiburg named icke and are miss corn wells practical partners in the concern one smelter has been erected in the new south wales court of the exhibition and one by the courtesy couite sy of tho direct ora on the broken hill south mine at broken hill that at tho exhibition will le ready fr its public trial on the bolh anat the crucible is built in with fire brick imported from freiburg the body oatha smelter ii of great heights heigh th and is fed from both sides being at the height of fifteen feet above the crucible the bull conand thelah leavo tho crucible in tho ordinary way but there is an from which every drop of lead can be run out without shutting out the furnace should the prove it will be a great boon to the barrier bil ver field and very likely creato ft latr toca should masi tnie lter revive dilill sunny an heart aul wul have reason u bank the of which characterized alna lady who with all her nature method shrewd aud much coroi iton iu |