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THE GOLDFIELDS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Co Rom an r) ki., Thursday. Since my last notice of the Plntus mine a stope has been started between Nos. 2 and 3 levels, aud a fair show of gold is observable in the stone. In consequence, however, of tho wood used in the battery being green, it is impossible to keep up anything like a full head of steam, and the battery is only being worked now by day until the contract for the cutting of 500 tons of dry wood lias been completed and a portion of it brought to the ground. There is little news from the Tokatea mine to report, save that the manager has gold iu hand again in tho reef in the Siege level. From the Royal Oak, too, the news is good. Altogether the manager has bagged nearly 300 lbs. of specimens, with the probability of the continuance of good stone. The contractors have finished their work in the low level, and tenders for another 100 feet of driving are called for to-day. On visiting the Bismarck yesterday I found tho loae in the face continuing the usual width. It looked, remarkably well. At the point where the specimens had been obtained lately, the leader has been pinched up for the last few shifts. Yesterday, however, it had opened out, and small quantities of gold were visible in the stone. Tho new contract for 200 feet has been let, and is being proceeded with. Since the portion of the pumps sent up for repairs has come down and has been fixed, sinking has been resumed in the Union Beach mine, and is steadily progressing, tho country being fine working ground. Great expectations aro formed of the returns obtainable from tho next level, good cold in large patches having been left iu the floor of the upper level, now worked out. Some time since a ton of stone was crushed from a claim in the Paul's Creek district, being worked by a miner named Peters, which yielded one and a-half ounces. Four tons have now been sent to the Nil Desperandum battery, where they are being treated. A very large fire, which started on Thursday, has been raging in the neighbourhood of the City of Auckland and the Waikoromiko claims. The whole of the tools left on Saturday night by the workmen on the track were burned on Tuesday. A stack of 100 tous of firewood was destroyed. Yesterday the lire crossed the main range and spread downwards into Cadman's bush, facing the harbour, covering tho township aud flatland with smoke. What little rain has fallen has served to get the firo under considerably, but it is still smouldering. Had the fine weather and wind continued the bushes adjoining Cadman's would also have suffered.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4122, 29 January 1875, Page 3

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THE GOLDFIELDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4122, 29 January 1875, Page 3

THE GOLDFIELDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4122, 29 January 1875, Page 3

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