THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6825, 2 October 1883, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

Darwin.—The manager's report, dated tbe 29th ultimo, iia aa followa :—Since my last fortnightly report the main shaft has lieen sunk twenty-two feet, making the total depth 134 feet from the trace j that the country sunk through has been a tighter class of sandstone than previously, and therefore, tbe progress-has been slower. It is interlaced with black mineral veins, and of a good description for carrying gold-bearing lodes—Mr. Biyldon having a high opinion of it. The water we have had to contend with, being from the surface, has diminished, and, aa the dry season'advances, I expect to have always less. The shaft, as a piece of workmanship, has been approvedTby all who have seen it, and the adit tunnel from the road level has proved invaluable for taking in our timber, and discharging water through, and the co-t of the whole work is less very considerably by day labour than had the tenders of. the contractors been accepted. The depth—namely, 150 feet, at which it has been decided to open out, will not be long now of being reached, although the shaft will require to be sunk ten feet deeper for a well hoie. In driving for the parallel lodes, the lodes intersected in the shaft being at right angles, and dipping seaward, will be first reached, and, I calculate that, when we get through the latter and reach the parallel lodes, that the mine will be effectually drained, and that the workings will be dry. fBY TKLSGJiAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Monday evening. Sharemaekkt. —Smile, sellers 2a 3d ; Dart, eelleru 5s 6d ; Deep Level Cross, sellers 3s ,- Bind of Friendship, buyers 3s ; Manukau, sellers Is 3d ; Imperial, buyers 375, sellers 3Ss; Queen of Beauty, sellers 2i 6d ; Golden Crown 5s ; New Find 8s 6d, 1 9s, 8s 9 ', sellers 9s, buyers 8s 6d ; Colonist 7a, sellers 7s. buyers 6s 6d ; Hauraki 3s 6d, sellers 3i 6d; Vulcan, sellers 3s, buyers 2a lid; Werahiko, sellers 7s. Caledonia*. —34 loads of quartz yielded 570z3. melted gold. Imperial.—Wood progress is being made with the shaft and machinery, and mining will probably be commenced in about a week. Deep Level Cross.—A shift is at work on tli3 footwall leader, and the winze on the hanginijwall leader is being continued with three shifts. The 640 feet level is in excellent country. The face is now nearly dry. QffEBN oir Beauty.—Only the drive on the reef hillward at No. 10 level and the crosscut towards the Vanguard are in operation. The stones did not pay. The average was small, and tha leader not large enough to yield any very considerable supply of quartz.