MINING NEWS. Grahamstown, Friday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4722, 12 October 1872, Page 3

MINING NEWS. Grahamstown, Friday.

West Coast. — Excepting one block about 40ft. square, there is not much of the leader left standing to the eastward of the crosscouise at upper level. I mean the old Bee hive level, which is from 100 ft. to 110 ft above the main adit level. Eighty feet above the Beehive Creek is bhe bottom level of the tribute section of the mine. It was between these two levels that the 400-and-odd-ounce patch was taken some two months ago, out of a section of the lode 70ft. high by 40ft. long, abutting to the cross course. Further from the cross course than this the lode although of good quality was not so rich, and hence it is surmised that the shot of gold may be following the dip of the cross course. This conjecture is permissible enough, and seems likely to be made good, inasmuch as where the lode is being followed out of the winze that connects the Beehive level and the adit level it is discovering a marked indication to improve in quality as the face of the drive approaches the line of the supposed shot. When I visited the mine yesterday, the drive which had been opened 60ft. down the winze was in 60ft. towoids the cross-course, and showed gold at the end. A considerable" section of the lode had been stoped out above, and the stuff from it constituted the crushing which was finished this week, and yielded only a moderate quantity of gold. However, the next crushing promises to be an improvement upon it. Work just now is confined to this 60ft winze level, but the manager talks of putting men on to take out the block standing above the Beehive level, and which should produce a goodly quantity of the precious metal. He also purposes to, as soon as convenient, give the leader a thorough prospecting on the other side of the cross course. The tnbuters found good stone in that direction, and probabilities are therefoie in favour of the level below them proving no worse. Indeed the leader has been cut there at the Beehive level, and gold seen in it : 30ft. below the 60ft. -winze level a slide came in and cut the leader, and ifc has not yet been found again, simply because no search worth mentioning has been made for it. No doubt it has been thrown by the slide, and will be recovered by driving in a certain direction along the slide. The loss of the leader there will not be felt for a long time, theie being so much ground to work above the slide and on the west side of the cross course, and long before that is exhausted the leader will certainly be found again below. In the stopes it shows a very nice vein of a medium blue colour, and an average thickness of say 12in. It is full of base metals. Moanataiari. — The new leader in the south-east cross-cut No. 9, tunnel level, was cut at about 30ft. from the boundary of tho Morning Star mine, and is assumed to be the underlie of one of the Castle and Galatea veins. A nice patch of golden stone was taken out where the cross-cut passed through the vein, but since then not much gold has been seen. 'J he vein has been followed 6ft. or Bffc. each way, and is somewhat broken up, which will account for the poor quality of the stone. The stringers, however, are converging, and promise to make a solid lode a few feet further ahead. They vary from 1 ft. to 18in. of stone in the aggregate. There is no chauge to report in the No. 9 lode or its branch. The rise at the end of Heldt's cross-cut is up 35ft, and carries a good lodo some 2ft. thick. Gold is frequently seen in it. The air-shaft that is being sunk to meet the rise is down 100 ft.; at 90ft., or thereabouts, it met the lode, and is now following it. At first gold was at en in the stono, but during the last day or two the show has been poor. On the north-west side of the tunnel, the No.l lode, at the end of cross-cut No. 3, looks very well indeed. It consists of a compact body of stuff, 3ft. or 4ft. thick, and showing gold. A winze sunk from the battery level of the mine carried a beautiful lode all the way down to the cross-cut level. As soon as the leading driye is a sufficient distance ahead, stoping from the winze will be commenced, and cannot fail to be attended by increased returns. Gold was seen in the winze from top to bottom. In cross-cut No. I 1 the lode is still much affected by slide action, but will improve as it is followed to the westward away from the disturbing cause. Nothing worthy of special remark has occurred lately in the upper levels of the mine. A. general clean up at the two machines ia in progress, but, as less than the usual quantity of picked stuff has accumulated this fortnight, the return of gold will probably be under the average. Caledonian. — The announcement of a find of gold in the bottom level winze set the place by the ears this morning, and had the immediate effect of running the price of the stock up to £30, at which figure there were numerous transactions effected. I did hear of one sale of £33 10s., but it was merely a solitary instance of good luck to a seller. That gold was found in the t winze is true enough, and is no more than waß to be expected from such a lode and country as was in sight when I visited the mine last Tuesday. But, according to the manager, nothing very great has yet been struck : he tells me that a little gold was seen in a leader in the foot-wall, at about 22ft. down the winze. Another leader was coming in under that one, and I inferred from tLe manager's manner that he expected something out of it. — [Correspondent.]

A Toledo chap was quite smitten with his neighbour's wife. She did it with a rolling pin. ■ Strangers to Auckland must nece&arily feel puzzled as to the best establishment at which to procure clothing and other requisite articles for gentleman on a journey. Samuel Coosnbe3 therefore begs respectfully that they will call at the City Clothing Mart, 80, Queen street, just above the Dailx Southern Cross office, where they •will be able to choose from the most varied and best-selected stock in the colony, comprising clothing, hosiery, ties and scarfs, linen and paper collars of all styles, white and coloured shirts, flannel and Crimean shirts, underclothing of every description, hats, portmanteaux, trayelling- and carpet-bags, perfumery, and other toilet necessaries, &c, &c. There is also a large tailoiing department Connected with the Clothing Mart, which— although but lately started— has, from the excellent style and fit of the garments turned out, taken first place in the trade Specialty — to which the attention of travellers Is called : Any garment made within 24 hours, and an irreproachablo fit guaranteed.— S. Coombks, City Clothing Mart., 80, Queen-»treet Tailorin Establishment, Hi gH-atrect —