THE MINES.
A new shaft is now being sunk in the Tapauui Bush (says the Courier) near the spot where Professor Ulrich advised that the ground should be tried. Good gold is still being obtained in the Pomahaka.
The Waipori correspondent of the Tuapeka Times reports that the Deep Lead prospecting party have made a start. A crushing of 17 tons of stone from the ABC reef yielded 18oz 16dwt retorted gold. The party of tributers at work in the Victory Company's quartz-mine are reported to have come across a nice body of stone, which, from all accounts, is likely to give a satisfactory yield of the precious metal. At present the battery is kept going steadily. Mr Malf roy, a West Coast mining expert, who recently made a tour of the Otago goldfields, has returned to Hokitika, and in a communication to the Times says "he is very much impressed with the evidence of extensive gold deposits in Otago, which will, however, require the aid of science before they can be obtained. Of the miners as workmen he does not entertain such a favourable opinion, many that he has seen not coming up to the average West Coast miner for skill and capacity."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1793, 3 April 1886, Page 14
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204THE MINES. Otago Witness, Issue 1793, 3 April 1886, Page 14
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