THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9162, 18 September 1888, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

[from our own correspondent.] Thames, Monday. Saxon;— Twenty pounds of picked stone came to hand this afternoon from thehangingwall portion of the main reef in the fourth stope above No. 3 level. Cambria. —The rise at No. 4 level is up about 10 feet in a splendid class of country, and colours of gold are seen freely in the two small leaders now in hand. Driving has been commenced upon another leader at the same level. Good progress is being made with the winze on No. 6 leader below No. 3 level, and gold is found freely distributed in the quartz.

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

Trenton. —The contractors are making good progress with the sinking of the. shaft, 11 feet having been sunk during the week. The country has not had quite as good an appearance this week as it nad last, but there is a change for the better coming in the bottom again. The contractors will complete their contract of 100 feet about the end of next week. The machinery is in good order. New Fearnought.—No change of any consequence has taken place during the past week. The crosscut continues to pass through a good class of country for gold. I have explored the upper level, and have taken the bearings of the main drive and crosscut and taped off on the upper level, the distance the crosscut has been driven, and find the crosscut is in the vicinity of the various leaders that ought to be intersected, and expect a reef in hand, and to get easier working country by extending the crosscut another ten feet. Gold water (Whangamata). — Since my last report I have kept one shift under hand stoping, which is now finished to the level of No. 1 drive. I have obtained about three tons of ore from this working. The other shift has driven a distance of twenty-five feet, the reef carrying payable ore along the floor of the drive for the whole distance, but only for a few inches on the face. From this indication I have every reason to believe the good ore is going down. At present all hands are making a track to the place where I start a new drive. The outcrop of the reef is about twenty feet above this. I forward a few pounds of the stone to be assayed.

THE MAHAKIPAWA GOLDFIELDS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Monday. The most extraordinary rumours were afloat here yesterday and to day about the richness of the Mahakipawa goldlield. "ll&ozs of gold for a week's work, and l5o«s from one dish that was the report. I was standing this afternoon with Mr. H. N. Abbott, of Auckland (an old digger), when a friend of his came up and said the story about the Blenheim boom was false. I mention this to put your goiddiggera in the North upon their guard.