THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6965, 14 March 1884, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDESTS.] [ Thames, Thursday evening. Sharemarket. —Deep Level Cros3, sellers 2a 6d ; London, sellers Is 6d; Imperial, buyers 15 ; Cambria, buyers Is 5d ; Canadian, sellers 3s. Cambria.—olbs. good picked stone fell away from the reef in stripping. Dsep Level Cross.—The men are working again at the 640 feet level. Qoeen of Beauiy.—A leader about eight inches wide, and containing a large percentage of good mineral, lias been cat at Ho. 7 level. No. 10 level should be dry to-mor-row. Coromandel, Thursday evening. Union Beach, —There is a good show of loose gold in the Venus Reef at 80 feet level. A little gold is showing in the stone. The reef has a spleudid appearance, and everything is favourable for a hatch of specimens. The drive on the Black Reef looks well. The country is very good, but that cut a short time ago is not turning out as well as was expected. United.—The manager is driving on a nice leader near Crown Hill. A good dish of prospects ean be got. Tokatea. —Getting a fair show of gold in the upper workines. The main drive is still very hard. The tributers, Knox and McNeil, are still getting good payable stuff. SOCCESS. —Getting a little gold in the stopes. The reef looks first-rate, and is full of mineral. Matawai. — Started crushing a large parcel on Tuesday. It is showing splendidly on the plates, and from appearances when the picked stone goes through, will give a grand total. The adjoining claim will also make a start in a few days. Te Aroha, Thursday evening. New Fisd. —In rising up on the No. 1 reef from the Arizona level some very nice gold was got during last night's shift. The workings in the other parts of the mine are looking about as usual. The crushing at the battery with ten head is shaping up for an average return. In the Diamond Gully some very good stone was found the other day on the oatcrop of the main reef and close to the Coquette boundary.

Qtjien op Beauty.—The following is the mine manager's report:—No. 8. Vanguard cro6s-cut: Too rontraotors have driven 33 feet siDce my last report, making a total of 55 feet for the fortn ght. This Is excellent progress, and the ground is blocky, andthe cross reel is a great assistance for speedy driving. They passed through another quartz stnnzer similar in appearance and size to the last- 2Co. 10 lavel, No. 1 reef: The drive .on this reef has been standi' g for a time, but I was obliged, on account of tbe pressure of watar and the broken ground, to pat in some timbers and secure it up to the solid sandstone, and in the break between it and the slide formation tbe reef showed several colours of gold. In putting in the leading stope over the timbers for ventilation, when In square with the face of the drive and in the overlapping ssndston-, a decided improvement took placo i'j t''-e lea'er, which at this place is fully 12 inches in thickueis. anl we got some good stones with a nice streak of gold running rixht through tbem. I would strongly recommend that this drive be put seaward and stuping be commenced upon it. and 1 have not the slightest doubt if this was done we should soon be able to relieve the company or calls. During the time the water has been in No. 10 I have had the m?n employed at No. 7, and we have put in a cross-cut of 10 feet seaward of the shaft, and discovered a leader today 8 inches in thickness with good minerals in ir. This leader leaves the Queen main reef about No. 6. and it has the same dip and bearing as the No. 1 reef at No. 10. I believe this leader is identical with the one successfully worked by Piako tributers up to the Queen boundary, from which they got 4ozs. per load. The block Hoped out by Preece and party is alongside of this, and my opinion is that this new leader carries the gold from the main reef, and 1 would like to drive on it and tako out a trial crushing from it. The crushing of 1* loads from No. 9 winz- and tae interm-dUte level yielded 6oz«. 9Jwts. retorted gold, and this is a fjirly satisfactory yield, coniidenn? that very few colours w*re *een in it: and it proves that the No. 1 reef carries gold, and at No. 10 the indications are far more favourable than where tbe crushing was taken from.