MINING MATTERS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3428, 11 July 1868, Page 3

MINING MATTERS.

The crashing of the Caledonia's quartz turned out most satisfactorily, the yield being 2030z. from seven tons of stuff, or 260z. to the ton, at Goodalls machine. This parcel was the product of the new leader opened on the claim a short time since. A share in the Duke of Edinburgh Claim, Waiotabi, has changed hands this week for £240.

A anrrey of tbe Kuranui Company's workings hM di«cl<>-<e<l the fact that they have encroached tyro feet u po H ii ii t'« ground. We suppose the matter will be a ii'ipronnsed. Tlio Prospectors' (late Williamsons) Claim/ Moanataiad, have at length been successful in striking something whioh is calculated to reward them for their long term of fruitless work. At a diitinoe of 340 feet from the side of the hill in which a drive was commenced, the party bare struck a solid body of auriferous quartz, believed to be th« famous Manukau leader, to open which the party have so long penevered. Indications of its pretence were first discovered about three weeks ago, at ft ''distance of some 50 feet from the Manukau boundary. A shaft was put down about 30 feet from the Manukau boundary, and carried to a depth of 102 feet in order to open the leader ; and the drive iv question has been carried until the ahaft was broken into, when a turn wa» taken to the right, carrying the leader still with a better prospect of success. r Jhe reef is a solid body of hard blue quartz, very freely impregnated with mica and other pyrites, but the golden prospect withal must be very encouraging. The drive contains several wind* ings, but h«s been well wrought. A tramway has been laid from the mouth of the drive to a paddock beneath the hill, which is now being filled with good stone for the machine. The party exhibit some rich specimens of stone taken off the new-opened leader, which ought to give a very large yield. A correspondent on the Waiotahi, writing yesterday, encloses the following items of mining new* from that locality : — "Having had*occasion to pail through the road leading to some of the principal olaims up the Waiotahi — which road by-the-by has the cognomeu of the Lovers' Walk, — I must certainly say a worse track cannot well be imagined. What strikes me as very bad policy on the part of the shareholders in those very rich claims is their negligence in making some passable tracks, as speculators will not rUk themselves along the road, much less think of getting machinery up, which ii the great want on this creek. I have passed by and noticed the workings of the Duches* of Kent, Golden City, and Great Republic Claims, all of which are on gold, and only want machinery to test their richness. On the Golden City Claim some skilful mining has been done ; one drive has been put right through the kill at least 120 feet, and some splendid leaders crossed. There are^some 200 tons of quartz already out j and I believe, if the party were to put up a sluicing machine, the very mullock they now throw into the creek would pay all thei? working expenses.' 1