MINING!- NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 6478, 20 December 1883, Page 4

MINING!- NOTES.

M. J. F. llealey, of Arrowtown writes colcoriiing the Macctown root's : -The half-yearly meetif'g of thy Mountain Maid Company was hold at Arrowtown orf ]sfch inst, when the directors' report stated?that the reef had bocn cut, showing gold in the. few lovel tunnel by means of ft cross-cut on tho left hind sido ; and by driving 50ft further along the lint of reef, which was now 3ft wide with' well defined Jvalls, tho rich shoot would most likely -he tapped, Ihis shoot vnn'proved by a shaft 43ft deep, to carry food stone to tao bottom, the present width thcio being lft, the country >-.'ift, and every . indication of §ho stone videnhig out. The great necessity of afoad being qia'To horn iho Maryborough' lattery ti Advance real: wai pointed oiiC, but a? .vet nlhing had been do. e by Government..in Mich dir<f;tion. It was fiim'lv arranged to consult with t* Koep-it-Dark iharchoMere (whose meotlns' wai hoilsj hid tho same evening) as to the advisability of bc.tll companies oonstruoting a pledge road at once. Taa balancesheet for the year showed total'receipts if be L 383; expenditure L 351, leaving L 32 to ..■.uvlitl tho assets were Ll3O, and liabilities about L 3-1, lo fifing LlO to credit. Tho balance-shcot and report froro unanimously adopted, Tho rollowlng w< ru chiefed tlir.'-otors for the ensuing year :—Messrs G W. '>-\\ r ier;W. J. Jenkins, W. Held, John Engleson, and fvV. Ehillips.. A vo'oof thanks to the chairman, retiriifo directors, and tho legal manager closed tho meeting.—At a meeting of the Keep-it-dark Company, {held imme-.

difttely afterwards, It w*B resolved that two men he employed by each Company to construct a sledge road from their respective mines to tho Maryborough battery, and that the line of road be laid of! by Messrs Engleson and Broadfoot on behalf Bf tho two companies.—The Ladye Fayro Company are on good stone, and a largo reof la ooming in at the face of the tunnel. Mr Robert Strong, of Nasoby, 13 said to have invented an apparatus which, if it accomplish only a part of what it is affirmed to bo capable of performing, is destined to completely revolutionise gold-mining. The ' Mount Ida Chronicle' says of the apparatus : "It is nos only a la >or-savmg machine but gold-saving as well; all the fine or 'floating' gold which mining ingenuity has heretofore been unable to devise, a means to catJi will be secured. Th-v apparatus will work on any ground on which water can be brought, irrespective of fall, and with but little pressure. In a few week'; the machine will be In full work."