THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7786, 4 November 1886, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

[BT TELEGRAPH, —I)VN CORRESPONDKNU.I Thames, Wednesday. Caledonian.—The directors have divided the disputed gold taken from the boundary, Mr. Tnrtle receives £80 and the company £54. Crushing will be resumed in a day or two. Prince Imperial.—Dudley's tribute 48oz gold. At the District Court the lists oi: contributors in the Coromandel, Just-in-Time, and the Hauraki (Earangahake) were settled. Fakroa, Wednesday. Although the new quartz reduction works are ready to receive quartz, none has yet been sent in. There is great dissatisfaction expressed at this, it being generally thought that the mines should have been ready for that for which they have clamoured so long. Mr. Horcsby is inspecting the new plant.

being forwarded to the batterjT"" 8«~~^ = ' mineral wae seen occasionally inTk * ¥°°* this quartz out, bat we did not a.e ,* kin The men that were breaking th?« „„ M 0 have been removed from here .W"* been pat op. to break out 20 l j" , quartz from the western &L T 1 °* winze above No. 3 level in the r> th, section of the mine. The crosscut ThTV* being pat into the hanging**' at v fc U level in the Darwin tectTon of th« 0< . 2 now in a distance of 20 fett. A small i'"' " was cat in this drive about 6 feet i « et where the drive wae started, in whinh I 0 "1 of gold were seen. There US ft?" country in the face of this drive? £ ' G 8 operations have been carried on on +7. pID B above No. 2 level in the Darwin .A t6e£ the mine near the Cambria to-d»y, but lam sorry to say the l from here is not shaping well at the q . U * rtz There is only a portion of thin '*• through yet, so that I am not in an*"* to state how much it will g0 but h appearance of it I do not expect' mow a the or lOdwt to the load, and seeing thi. T I* 8 discharged the six men that were » l* v * here. Thirty loads have been put th rkln « the battery from the comn»nv\ ■& Public crushing: Five loads for flu m, ' party, and there are now fire loaH. * n< * through for Dabb and party. The bitted in good order and working satisfactorily i the winding engine. '» "<> _ Invekcargill, Wedne,d, v Very nice samples of quartz from u, Men vale diggings are being shown in town r! was found in a creek, and is thickly im nated with rather worn gold. rL - eg " who found it has driven about 130 feet" 111116 ' expects to strike the reef at 40 feet f \u B< * Tue stone is good solid stuff, unlike ti ' run of golden stone. ' uw *» the uiu»l