MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7636, 9 August 1886, Page 2

MINING.

NOTES FROM REEFTON.

(Feom Our Own Cokhespoxdent.)

Reefton, August 7.

The following are tho battery returns for the past week: —Welcome, (1270z amalgam; Keep-it-Dark, 208oz amalgam; Fiery Extended, 4190z amalgam; Vonns Extended, 12Soz amalgam.

Welcome. —The return for tho week is exceptionally handsome, the battery having1 only been running since Tuesday evening ; the quantity of stone crushed being 56 tons. Reform.—The winze is now down 16ft, and the manager reports the reef to bo Bft thick and of fair quality. Britannia Extended.—This ground is situated south of the Britannia Company, on the Lone Star line. News was yesterday received that the rcof had been struck after driving a short distance. The lode is 2ft thick and gold-bearing. This discovery will have tho effect of inducing prospecting iv all the other leaseholds to the south of 1-loaphy and party.

An Ophir correspondent of the Dunstan Times reports:—" Several parties are working on tho completed portion of the new drainage channel, but they are exceedingly reticent as to their profits. Mr M'lmloe and a baud of Chinamen have a large undertaking in hand, their intention being- to sluice a deep channel right up the Hat by means of a head water-race from the Manuherikia. Mr W. Leask and G. Stringer are on a good patch at the foot of Brandy Hill. This party deserve every success, as it took them many months of'hard delving before they struck i the nielal. Mr W. Green is persevering with his discovery. He is now, and indeed has been for sonic time past, engaged cutting in a head-race to as near the claim as possible. The only thing 1 can Kay of Mr Green and his iindistliat'hehaH great faith in its value, in which 1 join, and let none be surprised, to learn when ho gels into full swing that lie is mailing a pile. There is a great want, of energy amongst all classes here, or other discoveries besides Mr Green's would bo made on the Blacks slope of the Hough Hidge."

—A missionary who has written a careful review of the progress of missions in Bengal in 18*1, notes prominently the fact that tho Moslems have assumed a more favourable ntfcitude towards Christianity than ever before.