THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

The following mine managers' reports were received yesterday :— Queen of Beauty.—Since my lust report of the sth instant, No. 10 level seaward has been driven 15 feet; the reef is 3 feet in in good country, kni greatly improved in appearance. In. the last breaking down we saw gold in the stone, la the slopes toward the shaft the lode has got much smaller.' It is now only 18 inches thick, and was not shaping payable at the battery, and I haviß atoppßi. it. The stopes. above this level, to the northward the lode keeps about the same size, from 12 to 18 inches thick, shotting gold when broken down. No. 8 level:. We have driven a farther distance of 12 feet in the Vanguard, and I havo let a contract to Wilton andparty to drive 100 feet, at £1 Cs 6d per foot. lam putting through a. trial crushing from the Queen of thq May. We will have to drive 10 feet, mere on. it to get the junction of the tributers' leader, I have twoi I men sinking a winze on. the leader; they are down 5 fe6t, and will break down the lede tomorrow.

SUCCESS. —Since date of last report, Ko. 2. cross-cut haa been pushed ahead with twa shifts,, and the reef has been met with, showing loose gq]d and gold in the'stone. This cross-cuV was put in on one of these fiat mundio veins, which continued to the reef a distance of 24 feet. Where the reef is cut corresponds with the underlay, arid the class of gold is. the same as what was got in the level above. I shall start to rise as soon as possible, when.something; good will be looked for;

Waiioki.—l am taking out quartz now in. which X can see goid every day. The. weather has been very bad this week.

Colonist.—Since my last report I have broken through into the winze, and I now fiavo the men engaged timbering it, and will soon have it ready for passing quartz tbrongh, and I expect in a few days to be breaking quartz front the big face,, and stacking it in the paddock ready to fiil the stopper.

Te Aroha.—Since my last report Ihad tbe men engaged for the first week in driving on. the No. 2 reef, and the quartz broken, still continued to show a lot of gold. For. the last week I have had the men clearing the site for the hopper, and I havo it now finished. The; contractor -will start to erect it next week and will have it finished in sit or eight days. I shall then lay the mine tram from the low level to the hopper, and start to fill it with This will be ill completed by the time the county tramway is finished.

The Boss United Compahy.—The shareholders have reason to be pleased with the complete success of their splendid drainage Works.. Tho large bddy of water tapped the other day was the great barrier to the successful working of the Koas flit; but now this Is completely removed, and tbe companyground is drained perfectly to a depth of over one hundred feet, the: whole of which contains, more Or less gold. Arrangements are now being mads for the cocstructien of hydraulic dredges, through which it is intended to pass the whole of this immense body of gravel.

[By TELEGRAPH;. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]} Thames, Friday evening. Sharbmarket. — Cross, sellers 3s 6d J. London, buyers la 6d ; Mariner, Sellers la 6d; Imperial 38s, sellers 395; Waiorongomai, sellers Is 6d; Colonist,, buyers 5s 6d. London,—ln sinking the. dig in winze on No. 1 reef a shot broke down in a portion oE the lode, and several atones containing dabs of gold were found. Imperial.—A fair show is left where the cwt. of specimens were taken from in eighth, stops to-day, Westport, Friday evening, The Guiding Star Company's mining manager reports that he has . exposed and cleartcL dawn the reef in several places on the north, side of the Maori Gully ad joining, the Morning Star lease. Wherever so exposed the:, reef shows good gold.