GOLD MINING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 12

GOLD MINING

Latest Returns By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 20. The Bell Hooper return for the week was soz. 9dwt. 9gr. Greyinouth, January 20. The Brian Boru Dredge return for the week eliding January 19 was 220 z. 6dwt. for 159 hours, the yardage treated being 22,000. Operations at Waihi The following information has been cabled to the London office of the Waihi Gold Mining Co., Ltd.: — Surface: In the deviation crosscut from the school drive at 93ft. in have intersected quartz 4ft. wide, assaying 3/9 a ton. The course is 83 degrees and dip 3 in 8 south. No. 5 level: The prospecting crosscut at 800 ft. west on the Martha lode is now out 365 ft. north-west. There are occasional stringers of quartz, the country rock being N’o. 6 level: North branch of Martha lode: A winze is being sunk at 216 ft. west. . No. 12 level. Edward lode: Driving soul li of Eel crosscut next 35ft., assays 19/9 a ton. Some sulphide ore is showing from 85ft. mark onward. London Rabbitskin Sale p,v Telegraph Press Assn.—Copyright. London, January 18. At the rabbitskin sales to-day 2399 parcels of Australian were offered and 1536 sold ; also 666 New Zealand were offered and '230 sold. There was a good demand for furriers' sorts at Id. to 2d. per lb. above last sale rates. ' Hatters’ and pulling sorts also advanced 5 per cent, and unpulled 10 per cent. AUCTION DIARY TO-DAY. Levin sal' - . 11-3(1 a.m. (Abraham anil Williams). IS Molesworth St., 2 p.m—Furnishings (J. F. McKenna). SJ 'Wcbli St.. 12.30—. Furnishings (Johnston and Co.). WEDNESDAY. Trenlham Sales. 10 a.in.—National thoroughbreds (Wright. Stephenson), Hutt ltd-. b).30 a.m —Bowser station (Johnston i. Johnsonville fat stock sale, 1 I'.m. ■ 78 J.aiubfon Quay, 1 p.m.—Office I'uruiturc (Klugsway).