MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9311, 30 December 1891, Page 2

MINING.

THE WAII'AI'A DRKDOIXG COMPANY

The manager of the Waipapa Dredging Company (Limited) reports for the week ending 21th inst., as follows :—" We are again on good gold after being off it the first three days of this week. Even thing was going well till yesterday, when T noticed the engine working very heavily, I at once stopped, and on examining the pump found the runner was loose on the shaft. The feather is cut away very badly. I at once stopped, and have been to-day yen- busy taking pump to pieces so as to get runner off to cut other key ways in it, which we must do to have it tight and a Job. It was never as tight a tit as it nu_ht to have been, an.l I was always afraid cf it. This will tako us some days to put right, bnt I will make sure of it this time if possible to do so. By return you will see I have retorted all the amalr-am on hand, and placed in bank HO!) 10s worth of gold, so if it were not for these stoppages one would soon make up a little eolil, as I know we have some very good ground to dredge."

The secretary of the Jutland Flat (Waipori) Gold Mining Company (Limited) reports for the week -loz HMwt gold for!!(! hours' wages time. The secretary of the Six-Mile Beach Dredging Company reports for the week ending 22nd inst., :)2oz (idwt amalgam for 5l! hours' wages time. Mrs Silk has on view at her Leviathan boarding establishment a cake of gold weighing some 440z. The gold is the proceeds of 2JJ tons of quartz obtained by one man and two hoys from the Surprise claim. Nenthorn, during eight weeks work. Tlie claim formerly was held by a company, who abandoned it, anil it was afterwards purchased by Mrs Silk. The gold looks exceedingly well, and the prospects increase day by day at the claim.