THE GOLD FIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9161, 17 September 1888, Page 5

THE GOLD FIELDS.

[from orr. own correspondents.]

Thames, Saturday. Caledonian.—Rowe and party (tributers) have completed a crushing of 10 loads of quartz for the payable return of 230z ldwt melted gold.

Axbcrxia.—Sloping operations are proI ceeding as usual on J one's leader above the J battery level, with fair prospects. A few- | pounds more picked stone were obtained \ during the last day or two from the new | slope started at the eastern end, in addition j to the 201b reported on Wednesday. Saxon.The contractors at No. 5 level i are making good headway with the extenj sion of the drive on the main reef, which , averages about a foot in thickness, and I shows colours of gold at every breaking I down. There is no change to report from j the stopes above Nos. 3 arid 4 levels, the j lode throughout yielding a payable grade of | quartz. Little Nell.—The Warden has given I permission to the proprietors of this claim j to work with four men until the new level ! now being driven cuts the reefs sought for. i he having personally inspected the claim I and satisfied himself that a larger number i of men could not be profitably employed at the present time. Paeroa, Saturday. Skeen is getting grand gold at the Saxon, aitekauri. .CROWN GOLD MINING COMPANY. ! By the San Francisco mail which arrived J on Saturday, the directors of the Crown j Gold Alining Company received word as to j the value of their ore shipped to Glasgow in I April last. The ore has been successfully | treated by Cassell's process, which, we i the understand, will be adopted to treat the I company's .stone. The following is the I result of the three parcels :—No. 1, £28 per j ton; No. •_', £7; No. 3, £6; but the total return has not been given. A new pul- ; veriser will also be used just patented in ( dasgow, which has given great satisfaction. The formation of the company is not completed, but is expected to be before the end of the present month. Adeline Amalgamated.—The directors will assemble to-day to consider the answer or Mr. John McLaren, Thames, as to the survey of the amalgamated claims. He recommends an application to be made for a special claim, instead of having two licensed holdings, which would require to be worked separately— special claim meaning divi- . denris, and working two holdings meaning '. culls. j May Queen.— property includes pori turns of the Queen of Beauty, Queen of the | ;" av > G'ty of York, and Seymour claims. | the i Hematite claim—part of the City of . j \oi-k—has also been added, and brings th" | area to be peg and peg with the Trenton. | Ihe prospectus, which is ready for issue. gives the following details as to the company to he floated :—The capital to be £20,000, iii .30,003 shares of 10s each ; 2">,000 of the shares, paid up to 2s 6d per share, to be retained by the vendors ; and 25,000 shares, the balance. nil paid up, to be offered to the public at fid each. There is an influential Auckland directorate, and the secretary is Mr. R. McDonald Scott. I _.. THE TEREWHITI GOLDFJELI). Wellington, Saturday. The Hon. Mr. Richardson, Minister of Mines, and the Hon. Mr. Fisher, Minister of Education, returned to Wellington last j night from Terewhiti in tho Stella. There j was a very narrow escape of a collision in I the Cook's Straits with a schooner (havini; I no lights), but scudding before the wind a!' j sail set. This morning the Minister of j Mines showed me some specimens brought j from the Perseverance goldmine. Tin; | pieces are of crystalline quartz, almost ! white in colour, ami showing specks of gold ' on different parts of the surface. There is no j doubt about the auriferous character of this ! stone, ft did no! appear to me to have the ! weight which indicates richness, either as : regards the quartz or character of metal ! contained in it. As I mentioned in my last, several tons of it have been shipped to Melbourne to be tested. On one of tinspecimens in possession of the Minister. there was a small but very brilliant patch or j gold. There was no other indication of j gold being contained in it. j [by telegraph.—press association.] J Reefton, Saturday. i The following are the returns for the : week :—Keep-it-Dark, 3370/.s amalgam from ' ISO tons; Globe, LISo/.s from RJO tons;; Fiery, 2130zs from 9!) tons.