OUR GOLDFIELDS
(BY TELEGRAM.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Coromandel, this day.
Royal Oak. —The mine manager reports : —The ri^e is going ahead favourably, the reef is still broken, but at the inner end there is the appearance of a change for the better coming in. The tributers are at present driving towards the Poverty reef in their low level, also prospecting on what seems to be a branch from No. 3 near the surface, getting good prospects. To-day they arecrushingtneirspecimens and picked stone ; over lOOoz are expected.
Tokatea. —During the past week Hornibrook and party obtained fully one ton of general quartz from No. 9 block on tribute, and have decided to take this wifch about 101b of poor picked stone to the battery for treatment. Duncan and Carlsen are also crushing. Roberts and Scott have obtained another 121bs. picked stone. Halpin's ton of No. 2 quartz yielded 7oz. —Jno. Benney, mine manager.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 176, 27 July 1888, Page 2
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