PROVINCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume x, Issue 2781, 2 April 1879, Page 3

PROVINCIAL.

GRAHAMSTOWN, Tuesday

Kill lAN U I CRUSHING

The mannscr of the Kuranui battery in cleaning up for retorting. In proportion to the quantity of stuff crushed the ye wiU be much superior to that of last mouth A small tonnage has been reduced. Since the water rose to No. i level, the increase has been almost irnprecept bio own ff to to amount of excavation it has to fall, and the manager of the Caledonian is of opinion that, at the present rate, it will take three months to Jill. . ..., The Avi continues good, and the Via Golden Calf employe* are still working. The Alburnia has obtained SSSora. as the months yield.

STEAMERS FOR UPPER THAMES.

The concert in aid of the Kaitangata Relief Fund realised a net profit of £25. The Kcelaf, a steamer intended for the Upper Thames trade, to be driven by water as motive power, was laid to-day at Mr Stone* building yard. Mr Stone is the builder of the trading vessel winch took first prize at the Auckland Regatta. Iho vessel will also receive a screw U> be used in the event of the water expeiiment failing. She is on tho principle of several vessels plying in English and American waters. The Thames Produce Company is also about to have built a u'O feet keel steamer for the Upper Thames trade at the same yard. i>;-.-.:-« This day. Albuknia.

The monthly retorting took place nt the Herald buttary, for a return of 2870zj lldwts of melted gold, the produce of 295 tons of quartz. During the past mouth various lodes m the mine have produced very poor dirt, but there seems to bo an improvement at present. WAIOTAIH. The principal works carried on in this mine during the past three months have beeu sinking the main &haft another SOft, for the purpose of opening up the new level and sinking the winze in No. 41ode. These works have been completed^ and the Manager is now cutting out a chamber at the bottom of the shaft, preparatory to putting in a cross-cut to intersect the lode worked In No 2 level. In No 4 level the men are employed working No 2 lode and some of No. 4 lodes and leadeis. The returns from the Smile of Fortune, Owharo.i for three months have been : From No 4, Hart party, 10 tons 31ozs rich ; Avdson party, No, 235 tons, 30oza ; Kiddle's Waterfall leader, of the Smile of Fortune turned out 20Z3 Sdwts from 20 tons. The Kadical, Owharoa, cannot start crushing because of the scarcity of water. The return from No. 4 leader is the best that the tributers have had since takin" over the mine, being over 3 ozs to the ton. They are still getting out stone aa good as that crushed, and expect to have a large crushing this month. Captain John ltutt, well known here and iv Auckland, is dying of lung disease. Mr Smyth, a settler of Tarau, who lias 700 varieties of fruit trees, has just exported to Wellington 35 cases of oranges and 50 cases of lemons, the produce of his orchard.

RUSSELL, this day. Arrived : Linda Weber from Auckland. The Kotorua arrived at 6a m. and lona at 10.30 a.m. Sailed : Kotorua, 3 p.m. for Sydney.