TAIRUA BROKEN HILLS COMPANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 273, 17 November 1899, Page 4

TAIRUA BROKEN HILLS COMPANY.

The well known scow Orakei (Captain Wilson) was towed up the Tairua River on Saturday, 11th. November,; and berthed at the Tairua Broken! Hills Gold Mining Company's wharf, upper landing. She brought boiler, engine, and other machinery,' a quan« tity of railway iron, bricks, and thri*, j ber for the new" battery at Broken; Hills, some SO tons in all. Mr Norman McLeod has secured the contract' for conveying the machinery, etc;, from the company's wharf to the bat-' tery ■ site,-1 a distance of four miles." Men are at present engaged repairing 'the road between the two placesnamed. ■ : CHELMSFO^D COMPANY (UPPER' TAIRUA.

A day or two ago we stated that the chairman and two directors of tins' mine, Messrs Masefield, Whitle'y.and,', Bailey, had returned from a Tisit to the mine, and being their first exami* nation were much impressed and. satisfied with the prospects, so much, so that they are now drawing up a report to be embodied in the form of <' a circular to "be issued to each share* holder. In order to ascertain the values of the various lodes now being operated upon, five bags of averagw samples were taken from different places, and forwarded to Mr Batjen, I the metallurgist, who has this day sent in the following results: —Is T0.4 bag, assay value per ton, £7 6/6; No. 0, £7 7/7; No. 10, £46 2/3; No.' 20, £.12 16/: No. 55, £150 16/. Nos.^lO;'; and 55 are the new finds so favourably^ reported upon by Messrs J. McGombie* and Joshua Jackson, who were sent up on separate occasions by the share*, holders. .