THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12447, 22 January 1904, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

WAIHI BEACH UNITED G.M. CO. The supervisor of the Waihi Beach United Gold Mining Company's claim reports. that the timber contracted for by the Tamaki Sawmill Company is now delivered and stacked alongside the site of the shaft. Tenders for sinking 80ft will be called for shortly. At a meeting of the directors, held yesterday, the legal manager (Mr. R. McDonald Scott) announced the completion of the allotment of all the 140,000 shares in the company. BIG BEETLE G.M. CO. The manager of the Beetle Gold Mining Company's mine reports that the seventh slope has been further extended sft, and the reef is lOin wide in the face, and gold seen at each breaking, whilst good dish prospects are also obtained. No. 8 stope has been carried along sft, and at each breaking down gold is seen. The underhand stope on the footwall leader has been extended 7ft, making a total of 14ffc driven. It gives good dish prospects.. A riso lias been started from the low level to connect with Nos. 6, 7. and 8 stopes. The loader here is 4iu thick, and gives a few colours in the dish. The manager has prospected the rise on No. 3 reef to thewest of the low level, and has got very encouraging results, fair prospects being obtained in the dish, and occasional colours of gold being seen in the quartz. The battery has no\. been working seven shifts, and 220z of cold water squeezed amalgam have been taken off the plates. A WEST AFRICAN CLAIM. A letter received per the inward 'Frisco mail from Mr. D. H. Bayldon, who is well known throughout the Auckland goldfields districts, and who is now managing director of the Ankobra (Taquah and Abosso) Dredging Syndicate, Limited, Gold Coast, West Africa, states that the Ankobra dredger is at work, and recovered 1370z o.i gold in 170 hours. The manage, of the dredging syndicate is Mr. Burney, who formerly was manager of the Jubilee mine at Waitekauri.

THAMES BORING OPERATIONS. [BY telegraph.— correspondent.] Thames, Thursday. Three hundred feet of the 3in casing have now been removed from the Kuranui-Cale-donian Company's borehole, which leaves 240 ft more to get out.

VICTORIA G.M. CO. [in TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.! ,_, Thames, Thursday. Jhe work of reaming the large 'lsft boulder at the bottom of the Victoria Gold Mining Company's borehole to a diameter of sim is still proceeding. There now remain about sft more to ream to >'et through, but tho work is being attended with considerable difficulty, as stones of various sizes continue to fall away from the sides and drop down the hole," thus impeding the reaming operations very much

BORING CONTRACTS. |BT TELEGRAM.—OWN" CORRESPONDENT ] ~ n T TTT . Thames, Thursday. pijbij ■~'■ Wlnstotl , manager of "the Goldfields Diamond Drilling Company, of Kalgoome, has arrived in this colony on business in connection with the boring contracts his company have in hand and are negotiating for on the Auckland goldfields. At pre sent Mr. Winston is visiting the ft ala and other up-country mining distncts. ° a

WEST TOKATEA PROPERTY Let telegraph.—own cor-resfondekt ] Ti w * - , Cor omamji.;l, Thursday. J , west lokatea property, comprising two claims and battery, alter remaining 12 months idle, ,t is pleasing to note, is about to be again systematically worked bv the lokatea Consolidated, Limited, an English company, just registered, with a We working capital. This property is. ancf has for a long time been, considered a. most valuable one, and it is confidently expected that in a few months it will be a regular gold-pro-ducer again. The company has appointed Mr. Chas R Walker, solicitor, as its attorney, and he has received instructions to commence operations at the mine forthwith He has appointed Mr. R. H. Harrison, J.P., one of the r.ost experienced mine managers m the district, to manage the property, and he will commence work next week with six or eight men, whicn number will be increased when the preliminary work is finished. The property is situated on the best part of lokatea Hill, and is bounded bv the IW Oak, Pride of Tokatea, and Harbour View properties.

WARDEN'S COURT. [KY TELEGRAPH.— CORr.E3r*OXDEXT.] ~ , TTT , Paeeoa, rhursdav'. At the Warden Court to-day applications were grained as follows:—New Jubile- Cold Mining Company, six months' protection for the Jubilee and Jubilee Extended claims, at Waitekauri; T. B. Williams, six months' protection for Ard Patrick special quartz claim at Komata; Mr. A. T. W. Allen, six months protection for the Surprise special quartz claim, at Komata; Thomas Herbert biggs, six months' protection for May Bell Extended quartz claim, at Waitekauri'; Rising Sun Gold Alining Company, six months' protection for Rising Sun special quartz claim, at Owharoa; Charles Franklin, permission to cut seven kauri trees on the Pandora claim, at Waikino. An application was made by W. D. Nicholas, licensee of the Mistake claim, foi an order for an underground survey of the workings of the Komata Reefs Company's Te-Ao-Mararna claim, so as to ascertain 'if any of the Komata Reefs Company's workings encroach on the Mistake ground. Mr. Porritt appeared for the applicant, and Mr. Moresby for the Komats Reefs Company, who objected to the application. AfteT hearing argument by counsel the Warden said he would adjourn the application so that the Inspector 01 Mines (Mr. Coutts) could make an inspection of the workings of the Te-Ao-Ma-rama claim.