MIMING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 8

MIMING NEWS.

TiuitES, this day. • ;;£sambeia/>- *The mine manager reports /'"under- date 13th irist:—" There are tyro : nice-looking leaders in the top of the rise \in the drive at No. 4 level. There is splendid .sandstone' country in iihe rise and everything that could be desired for, gold. ■-■; "Vyhen.breaking down the No. 6 leader in the •winze--1 yesterday colours of gold-were seen ■' freely through the quartz. There is also a -leader, in the winze about 6 inches in thickness crossing the No. 6 leader at about right angles with a slight underlie easty/ard.' ■;" fiold was seen through the quartz .when br^akjrig it down yesterday." ~■ ; 1 ■'-New.-Manukau. —The drive qn No. 5 (level'jto pick xij> leader is now in better ground, and a little rubbly quartz'showing in face of drive. Hopes aro entertained of * ulting pomething good in this drive, for ir i.' lii the line of a large run of gold. lfp-'Monthly; Gold REi'aßNS.r—During the ■■■.'past-month the gold returns from the * various districts were a3 follows :—Thames : Borough, - 1,5150z5. ; Thames County, J/'r7oozs. ; Ohinemuri, 27ozs. ; Coromandel, 1, iOBO7-. Total: 4,3100za; against. 4,5000z5. ILvv Queen. —Tho prospectus of this Gold mining Company has been drawn up, ■ and is now lying ah the; office of the Secret i tary, , Ejs. McDonald; Scott. It is j proposed to iform ■ the Company for) .the pjrpose of.'working the Queen of the May.and Hetniti claims, Waiokaraka Creek.: Capital,- £2,500, in 1 5,000 a'harbs of 10s each, 2,500 of which;paid up to 2s; 6d per chare i are retained by the vendors of the mine. I