COROMANDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2796, 14 January 1873, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

THE RAKAIA TRIBUTE RE-LET. NIL DESPERANDUM CRUSHING. FINE LODE IN BISMARCK LEVEL. FIRST-RATE PROSPECTS AT THE WANGAPOA.—LEADER FROM FOUR TO FIVE INCHES THICK. COROMANDELISTS DESIRE TO VISIT THE CIRCUS. j [fEOM OUR OWN COREESPONDENT.] Monday, 5 p.m. The New Rakaia tribute has been re-let to another party (Wallis and Co.), who have started in to work it with rigor. The Nil Desperandum battery is now crushing with full force for the Tokatea, having finished a small parcel for the Little Anglo tributers of sis tons, which, however, did not turn out very well. In the Bismarck level of the Tokatoa there is still a fine lode in band, and a little gold is seen as it is broken down. No other news from the mine. The lode has made again in the Pride of Tokatea winze, which is going down steadily. A first-rate prospect has been brought in from what was once the Wungapoa claim, some four miles out. beyond the head of Cadman's Creek. Two men have been prospecting there for many months, and have got a loader which runs from four to nine inches tliict, composed of brown, burnt-looking quartz. They suuk a winze sixty feet, and connected with it by a drive down the hill, so that a considerable amount of work has beon done. They brought in 1 ewt. of the stone, which, they state, is a fair average of the lode where the gold is. This was treated by Mr. Haymes, at his test battery, and gave 14 dwts. of melted gold, or at the rate of 14 ozs. to the ton. The men are very confident that they have a good thing in hand, and proceeded to town tonight to try and make arrangements for working on a more extended scale. One of our citizens, while out. shooting this morning on the banks of the Karaka Creek, shot at a small bird, which ho brought down, and, at the same time, killed a huge yellowtail, which happened to be in the range of the gun. The fish weighed 27'r lbs. when dead. Numbers here are anxious that the Alfred should make a trip from here to enable people to visit the Circus. By leaving here on Saturday afternoon, at two or three o'clock, and returning on Sunday, giving cheap return ticket;, I am confident that a great many would go, and that it would pay well, if due notice was given on the range and in the township.