THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7567, 20 February 1886, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Friday evening. Siiaremarkkt.—Cambria, lis; Darwin, sellers, 9s ; Manukau, sellers, 2s. Cambria.—The following mine manager's report was received yesterday The ventilation in the intermediate drive below No. 3 level has not been very good for the last two days, and if there is no improvement by tomorrow I will start the men sinking on tho cross reef from No. 3 level, and break through into intermediate drive. Three loads of quartz returned from the smelting company's workß, was put through at the company's battery, and 3oz 14dwt of melted gold obtained. Yon will notice that the price got for this was only 52a per ounce. That is on aacount of some lead being in it, which got into the quartz when beiDg put through at the smelting company's works. The two loads of tailings that were put through the berdans at the company's battery from the pile stacked in the Golden Crown yard turned out 6oz 15dwt of amalgam. 248 loads of quartz have been crushed during the fortnight for the moderate return of lOSoz 4dwt of melted gold. Adeline. — Mr. K McDonald Scott received the following telegram yesterday from Mr. L. Melhose, the company's Thames agent, viz.—" Assay value : Gold, 230z« i ldwt 4gra. Silver 22ozs lOdwts 19grs per ton." He has since been authorised to sell the ore to the New Zealand Smelting Company, Mr. John Clarkson, a brother of one of the discoverers of the famous Shotover claim at the Thames, informs us that he has found traces of gold at Woodside, Papatoetoe, near the Raglan Hotel, on the property of Mm. Gladding. It appears he was sinking a well on the property, and at a depth of 32 feet, after pasting through a bed of pipeclay six feet thick, he came on a bed of mixed sandstone and rotten quartz, which is about 4wo feet thick. Some specimens of this which he showed us contained a large amount of silica, and is very heavily charged with mnndic. Mr. Clarkson informs us that with a fire test this gave a fair prospect of bullion, and a further teßt is to be made. SOUTHERN MINING. (by telegraph.—press association.] Lyell, Friday. Alpine,—The returns for five and a half day's crushing of 185 tons are 3420zs of amalgam from the plates. The Great Republic Company's battery is in daily operation, but a scraping of the plates has not yet taken place. The quantity of coal exported by the Westport Coal Company during the month of January was 5921 tons llcwt. The Koranui Company exported 3304 tons 14cwt. The total shipments from the port were thus 9226 tons scwt. Last week the Wallsend shaft was sunk 16 feet farther. This is keeping up the average very well, especially as the layers of rock now being sunk through are the toughest yet experienced. The total depth now is 437 feet. The long spell of dry weather which w« have had of late (says the Westport Times) has enabled the miners working in the 1 Waimangaroa River bed to make good progress, as the river is very low. We are told that one party of three men iB getting three ounces of gold per day. The Tyr Connell has successfully holed through from No. 4 level to the stops, and air communication is now complete. All the hands in the mine are now busily engaged stoping and bringing stone to grass. The stone is of a rich quality. Mr. John Ritchie is now engaged taking out a trial crushing from the Bon Accord mine, Eight-mile Hill.