KUAOTUNU NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 300, 18 December 1895, Page 2

KUAOTUNU NOTES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Monarch of All.—Tenders have beon callei! for driving 100 feecin this mino.

Kuautunu. —Tho western fuce is making a deal ot' water.

Midas.—Tho western drivo is in 175 feet. In fc'se present face there is a small quart/, seam carrying god. In the eastern drive a emull quartz vein has boon cue, carrying traces ot gold. Tho rnaiu body ot stone has nob been cub yet.

Gkicat United.—Tho reof is Bfb wide, carrying excellent mineral. Ab the time of my visit, the manager was prospecting tho top of the range.

WiiKAL Bassett. — Tbo area of this property is 100 acres. Ono large body of stone has been cub a fow feeb from Midas boundary. Gladys.—The leader iv tho trench prospects exceedingly well, and the quartz taken from the reef is being saved for crushing purposes. Ikknk.—The reof is fully 8 foob wide. Cakkagk.—ln No. 1 drive tho country still continues favourable, but no quartz of any importance ha» been obtained; In the No. 2 drive the reof is fully 2 feet wide, and is worth fully Aoz par ton by dieh proupects. Cyanide treatmonb is required for this quality of stuff.

Aokerk.—Tho levels are all in pood repair, and the plans now awaiting Mr Cheal, surveyor, to pub the finishing touch on for English market. I believe this Company will be floated immediately after the fe3bive season.

Golden Anchor. —From whtib I have seen of this property, thoro can be no doubt thab a futuro of brightness in before the shareholders.

Prospects (Late Prospectors Extended). —Operations have been commenced on a reef 2ft wide, which was discovered in oxcavatinj; for tli9 smithy. li> carries nice prospects of gold.

All the mines will bo closed from the 21st till the first Monday after New Year's day. The raanHcjors of tihe various companies are happy and willing to show thsir various properties to anyone thab will take the pleasure excursion of visiting a grand raining country and a most picturesque field for scenery. The pohutalcawa trees are now beginning to bloom, and by Chrisrtnaa will bo in full bloom, and we have a fern in our district called the Kinjj Fern, which only grows in this peninsula.

VISITORS TO THE DISTRICT,

Mr Ciemenb Dixon, a representative of Johanne:-bnrpr capitalists, paid an expensive vifit to this dietricfi. He visited moat of our mines in company with the never tiring managers,viz., MessrsHoruibrook and Captain Richarde?

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