THE GOLD FIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8669, 11 September 1891, Page 6

THE GOLD FIELDS.

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* Thames, Thursday. SuaarkktJ—Consols, sellers, Is Id ; Dives, sellers, Is; Hazel bank (Is Od paid up), sellers, 2s 2d ; Lone Hand, sellers, Is Od ; May Queen, sellers, 6s 6d ; Moanatairi, sellers, 7s 0.1 ; Orlando, sellers, (3d ; Saxon,"sellers, (is 3d. Orlando.—Two tenders were received to-day for sinking a winze upon hangingwall below at the present low level, and ten applications were received for tributes in the upper blocks of the mine,' the percentage offered ranging from 10 to 25 percent. The tenders and applications for tributes are to be forwarded to Auckland for the directors to deal with.

MoANATAiAKt.—'CIio winze upon the flab lode below the 100 feet level is clown a depth of over .'}o feet, and according' to the survey made to-day by Mr. Adams, another 15 feet should connect with the topes above the intermediate. During the last few feet of sinking the winze has been carried underneath the junction of the flat lode and cross lode, as the junction was found to be lying too flat, and to follow ib would bring the winze out a considerable heigh th above the stopes with which a connection is desired to be made. The cross lode also lias latterly been merely a clay seam, bub the flat lode is a strong and healthy-looking body of quartz fully IS inches thick, and a portion broken down to-day showed colours of gold freely. The survey made to-day proves almost beyond doubt that the lodo the win? 8 is being sunk upon is identical with the one worked m the stopes below, consequently Mr. Clark to-day started men to rise upon the lode from the stopes in order to expedite the connection, and he expects to have it completed by the end of the present week. In the face of the eastern stope upon this lode, above the intermediate, a strong body of quartz was met with to-day, which is believed to be the eastern continuation of the main footwall lode. If this surmise proves correct, the flat lodo will probably join in with it, and the manager will at last have been successful in picking up the continuation of the footwall lode eastward of the cross ' lode and main break below the 100 feet level, which hitherto he has j failed to accomplish. Another new work just started is the commencement ot a leading stope over the eastern intermediate drive put in some few weeks ago from jSo. 2 winze upon the footwall lode below the 100 feet level. The lode here is about Id inches in thickness, and the manager intends to work tho block continuously from

this point, using the winzTTo „ „ a the quartz down to the 200 feet CSV* S,ad workings upon the Golden A £ ,Th without much Change, but thp ! reef * r e been connected with the old p^° PSS hav ® merly carried on above the solnT'j for ' the object being to extend th riVe > eastward, in order to test the rtf • Bt,opc! ' direction. Nothing has been i ,ri tl,a > week in the end of the S. c '°?° tbi * large quantity of crushing dirt h v e '. A to hand from the stopes upon th- f COmin ? lode, and some very good cm-in twa '' gold freely" is also being obtain 8 Rowing drive pub in from the No. 8 sfco ' , froni 11 cross lode, in which two or Ik Upon ths looking leaders have latterlv V,« . ni <*- sec ted. Twenty stamper?,T employed upon the output of remaining twenty being engaged in or. 1 • tha for tnbuters and the Hazelbank Co? g