GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1898, Page 7

GOLDFIELDS.

j ÜBLIC BATTERY FOR WAITE/j KAURI. i 'meeting was held in the Waite- . hri Hall during the month to dis- £» the ways ancl means of obtamiff a crushing plant for the Waitekauri district. The meeting; was "strongly and unanimously of opinion ' S such a plant was an absolute necessity. Petitions are being signed for neces&i^ Minister of Mines SSIS^ the neeesSTfor a public crushing plant, and 3ng f& an allocation this session-thekmo-hypekphoric process. The Rev Joseph Campbell has deeded not to leave for London for the Sent, having been requested by many people interested in mining to ;L -hei-p for the present in order £*£.$£ parcels <5 refractory ore. Mr Campbell purposes purchasing the Aroha Company's battery at WaioroSmai together with certain mining properties. It is Mr Campbell's mSon to enlarge his present plant aS also to employ cyanide as well as W S own process, so as to ensure savfng 95 per cent, of the assay value of the refractory ore. Arrangements have been made by ihZ directors of this company With ihl Rev Joseph Campbell to have 40 tons of'ore treated at the Te Aroha Ste reducing plant of the Montezuma Company. The l«cal representative of the Montezima Company, Rev. Joseph Campbell, has obtained a three months' option over tlie Premier and New Find mines, together Wththe battery, cyanide p ant, water race, tramways, etc., of the Aroha Company.