OUR GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 2045, 30 August 1876, Page 2

OUR GOLDFIELDS.

Neves ville, Saturday. Tairua Prospectors. The battery will positively start on Monday week. The chairman of directors and some Auckland shareholders are expected to be down by Saturday. The prospects of the mine are first-class, but those interested in this property do not wish the public to mislead themselves. The trip to the mine, with all its difficulties, is an enjoyable one to those in good health, and would fully repay the trouble and confirm reports. The small battery has been working only on stuff from big face, 10 tons have yielded 40 oz. amalgam. This is quite up to expectation. No stuff has yet been crushed out of shaft, it waits large battery starting. The face from which they are crushing is fully 12ft wide. The Tramway is almost completed to Golden Arrow boundary, where 2oz stuff has been proved.

Both No 1 and No 2 shafts are now connected. The stuff looks remarkably well, the gold is going down looking better on the floor than where Neves got his rich flads, 7 feet higher up. The company have the whole width of the face gradually dipping to the north, and under the level that was put in from No 2 shaft.

The manager reports he has paid particular attention to this part of the mine, and it certainly has the indication of forming a strong lode at a lower level, whioh, with a drive of about 50 feet, can be put in at small expense.