THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6163, 18 August 1881, Page 3

THE GOLDFIELDS.

Home Rule, Tiki. — The following telegram was received at this company's office yesterday :—" Getting fair picked stone, showing blotches gold. Reef works better than ever.—Thos. Carroll." The following mine managers reports have been received :— Koranui Hill Ukited.—Poverty Section : Tho crushing has yielded bo poorly during the week that t,ho men have been withdrawn. Long Drive: Tho arrangements for breaking stun" m open cutting from tho bluff are now completed, and ten or twenty stampers can bo easily supplied from this source. AU Nations : The general stnff from this part of the mine is being put through ten stamps, and shows a return of over an ounce per ton. Battery: The stamps started on Monday last; SO head on company's quartz, 10 on tribute, and 10 on Goldsworthy's Moanataiari tribute quartz. Tributes: No finds of any importance havo been made during tho week. James, of the ICurunul section, is now crushing, and will have » very fair yield. Tho others are very poor.— J. MT. Walkee. Old ;—The manager reports that there is a great improvement in both drives. No. 2 reef, especially during the last throe breakings down, has shown every indication that surround patches of the precious metal. Bismarck (Cokomasdel). —Tho manager reports that work has been discontinued on No. 1 leader. A drive was started on Saturday to open a drive on a leader on the western portion of the ground. Tho quartz looks well for gold, being full of minerals. Success (Coromandel).—Sines my last report I havo got the rise through. Tho distance is 48 feet, including tho underlay. Where I broko through in the level, is about 15 feot outside of where the best gold was got. There was half tho timbering dono to-day, ready to opon out. I expect to be able to report something good next week.—Peter. Reid. Hew North Devox.—lntermediate level: Stoping has still been carried on during the past weok. The quartz appears to bo of a si i ibir quality to that lately taken out. I have suspeudod driving east for a few days, while the men are engaged in timbering up and laying road to present face. From tho indications I mentioned in my last report, I started to sink a few feot on tho reef, about 30 feet east of winze. Wo are now down about O feot, and tho reef appears to improve considerably, and to show nioro gold as we go down, and from the indications met with while putting up the rise, I would bo led to expect this to turn out a payable block. Battery: Crushing has been carried on with ton head of stampers for tho last nino days. The stuff appears to be showing up for about an ounco to the load.—Jolts Wilcox.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Wednesday. Waihi.— Mr. D. H. Bayldon is engaged surveying a water-race, tramway, and battery site for the Waihi Gold-mining Company, which it is expected will be completed in time to allow of the plans and specifications being prepared before Saturday next, when tenders will bo called for the construction of the tramway and water-race and the erection of the battery. I believe it is intended to remove the Flora McDonald battery and re-erect it for this company. What the Waihi district really requires now is a battery, for where lodes have been cut in almost every instance fair prospects of gold can be obtained from the stone, but whether these will pay to work out in large quantities can only be proved by the aid of the battery. "Only last week the drive in the Comstock claim cut through to the footwall o£ the large lode, and on some of- the stone being tried, it is said the prospect obtained was equal to any that has yet been seen in the district. If such is really the case, and there is no reason to doubt it, then it it is evident there are other lodes besides the prospectors' which are rich in the precious metal. To fully deyelope the district, however, as I have said before, a battery

ia neeessanly required, arid if-on this being started good average returns of gold are obtained, there will be no lack-of capital ■with which to open up the various claim!