BATTERY REPORTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3750, 26 July 1869, Page 5

BATTERY REPORTS.

The Kuranui Company'^ battery has been all the •week on stuff from the lame mines as the previous YrtHlc, Damoly Eur.ka, Long Drive, and Company'g Claim. Tho Lons; Drive cleaned up yesterday, and retort to-day. The Eur«ka clean up to-day, and on Monday the Deep Lead will take the place of the Eureka in the now battery. Some alterations are making in the tables of the old battery the blankettables being considerably lengthened, As soon as completed, the Long Drive crushing; will be resumed, the result of two splendid Bpecimen orushings in the one-stamper has already been published. Prince Alfred Battery : The Perseverance (Shellback) had a trial crushing at thia battery of three tons, which yielded half an ounct to the ton. The Red, White, and Blue No. 3, Moanataiari Creek, crushed » hundredweight of apeoirnens on Thursday, which produced 46ofc. of gold,. The sto»ewaa from a small stringer, near fend dipping into a large reef. The claim adjoins the West Coast, Dawn of Hope, and Duke of Edinburgh. There has been no fresh retort from the Golden Crown crushing since the one reported in yesterday's ißsue. The Tramway battery has been constantly going on Tookey's stone, which continues to maintain a very fair yield, The Moanataiari Company's Victoria battery has> with the exceptioa of a parcel of 36 tons for tht Pat Marire, been entirely employed on company's stuff, but there has been no cleaning up. The Pai Marire wai cleaned up lust evening, and will retort to-day, or at the beginning of the week. In the Boae of Australia a reef waa struck on Thursday, from which very fine spacimens were taken. The claim is in tho neighbourhood cf the Pride of Karaka, and this is supposed to be a branch of the latter's reef. The workmen in Tookey'n claim came upon another rich patch yesterday, and some excellent stone waa taken out, both in the workings on the Moanataiari Cr«ek and those on the beach bide of the hill. The reef »eems to improve with working, and the mine ii becoming every day more valuable. We believe that Captain Massoy has beeu inVesting largely for Southern capitalists in the Braganza Gold-mining Company's scrip, havibg purchased over a thousand during the last few days. The company's ground extends from the Waiotahi to the Moanataiari) and occupies a first-class position, adjoining the Carpenters' on tha Moanataiari and the Australian on the Waiotahi. It comprises 23 men's ground, held under lease, some of wbioh was previously worked as olaims, and very good lodes exposed. Under the present management the property is becoming « Rluable. —Times, July 24. The main shaft of the Golden Crown No. 2 Goldmining Company waa this day commenced on Graham's Town Flat. The grouad of the Company is splendidly situated, being next to the Golden Gate Claim, and dead on the strike of the celebrated Golden Crown lodo, which has been traced by survey through th» centre of the claim, and into the sea. No doubt every inch of ground in this part of the Flat 13 of immenie value, and thB estimation it is held in by opeculatoro was evinced yesterday by the •prices paid for Golden Gate stock, The Bragamza leasehold is p»g and peg with tbe Australasian Gold-mining Company, Carpenters', and other good claims ; large and well-defined leaders have been discovered, from one of which a trial crushing gave a return of over three ounces per ton. Southern capitalists are largely interested, and the leafie is to be worked in the ino->t systematic manner. — JSvening Star, July 23.