GOAL MINING AT KAWAKAWA

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7602, 3 April 1886, Page 6

GOAL MINING AT KAWAKAWA

According to the telegram I forwarded on Tuesday, the 30th March, the company's mine* have commenced working, and al! hand* are employed this (Wednesday) morning. No. 2 level is now clear of water, and notice has been sent to the Union Company and the Northern Steamship Company that coal will now be ready during the week for delivery At Opua. The sad depression by the mine being Hooded is is over. It lias been a season of much anxiety and doubt, and the whole community Buffered mote or leas, so many bread-winners being out of employment in gloom and sadness. Much credit is due to the energetic and skilful manager, Mr. T. P. Moody, and his subordinate offioers. It was truly a time of extreme anxiety, and required constant and unflagging enisrgy and skill. During six long weeke of hard work he has had to contend with many difficulties besides the continued rain and bad weather, want of sufficient steam power, defective appliances, and the various mishaps attending. One good result will follow— having a better stock of such needful machinery— to avoid at least some of trin anxiety and doubt if ever Buch a misfortune again occurred, and also from taking more efficient precaution n to prevent bo great and sudden a flood. It is to be hoped that such a catastrophe will not occur again. The town of Kawakawa presented quite a different appearance on my visit on Tuesday. There was an air of life and stir in place of the groups of sad and gloomy miners having no work to do. Wow they are once more hard at work in winning the coal. The boring operations on the scoria flat of Messrs. Masefield and Co., progresses slowly. However, the directing engineer, Mr. McGlynn, informs me that he is most sanguine in finding a good seam of coal. He has reached down to 182 feet, and is still going through green sandstone, come of it hard and flinty, which he think* is above the coal beam. —[Own <. ox-respondent !