Milling Notes.
(Fhom Our Own Correspondent.) Arrow, January 27. The continued dry weather is interfering much with mining operations of all kinds, and especially quartz-reefing. At Macetown the All Nations, Premier, and Tipperary machines are either idle or running a reduced number of stampers. Good stone is, however, being raised from all these mines, and should rain come boon satisfactory cakes maybe expected from the mines mentioned. The prospectuses of the Phcenix Extended, Skippers, and Maori Point Quartz-mining Companies are now before the public. The prospects of the Phoenix Extended are excellent, and the manager is pure he is on the same run of stone as that from which the Phcenix proprietors obtained such good results. (Fkom a Correspondent.) Qukknsto-wn, January 27. The mine manager of the Invincible Company reports that he has struck the reef on tbe machine level tunnel, and that the stone carries gold ; that he is driving through the reef, which is of good width and rather soft, and expects to find another reef inside, as he got two reefs overhead. He is sure that he is in the right placo now-
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Otago Witness, Issue 1784, 30 January 1886, Page 18
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186Milling Notes. Otago Witness, Issue 1784, 30 January 1886, Page 18
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