TAIRUA.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2141, 7 September 1875, Page 3

TAIRUA.

(PBOJI 008 OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

Nevbß7Hle; Monday, The break in the weather on Saturday has been followed by very heavy rains, and several travellers who came through on: foot yesterday report the various, streams between Shortla'nd and. Puriri very_ dangerous.. Seeing.'.that'.the vincial Engineer has been empowered to spend tho sum of. £500 on 'the roads, it would not be out of plaoe (although not implied in the vote)-if a'£s-note was expended upon the Kirikiri crossing, where a temporary bridge, of'a rough but strong naturo, might be erected for that sum. This is a most dangerous creek to cross, and on several occasions narrow cscapesirom drowning have been experienced. When some poor fellow has lost tho number of his mess; we may expect that it will be attended to. The petition in favour, of the Government Abolition; measures has received numerous signatures, and could a few days' moro grace. have. been given, it would have formed a valuable adjunct to tho monster petition which I hear is being got up at the Thames. Tho feeling within the last few days has been much healthier than for some time back, and in a measure to the capital show that has recently been developed in tho Britannia Company's mino. It is evident from this latest discovery that as the dry season sets in, and more borfa fido work can be done, we shall hearof similar rich finds in various parts of the field. Ouf great drawback hitherto has'been the want of machinery/but this, desideratum I anticipate will shortly be overcome, inasmuch as this week may probably witness negotiations completed for tho erection of a couple of batteries below the site now occupied by tho prospectors':machinev Once theso are undertaken by.j.privato individuals, a greater interest. in our welfare will be taken by capitalists, as it will prove to them the..richness of our reefs, and remove tho inertness that characterises many, of our speculators. It is a well known fact that many speculators, who have visited us are .highly pleased with tho future prospects of the field, but as their ventures are confinec

to mines, they stand aloof from machinery, leaving that to those who are more experienced in such matters.

The fukotui Company's manager has put in' a cross-cut towards the hangingwall of tho reef, and finds there is fully eiqht feet of crushing stuff. Tho stone tested from this portion of tho lode yielded as well as the other wall, and runs very regularly throughout. In my last I had occasion to mention.that in the faco of the drive a hard bar of ground had come in/which appeared as if it would affect

the course of the lodo. • This was pierced on Friday night, and was only a mere shell, the same body and nature of stone, ljing behind, and yielding similar prospects to the remainder of the lodo. The

drive is now in fully 50 feet, and from tho first to tho last foot driven tho grado of tho dirt has been very regular, so much so that the manager's estimato of its

ralue is not overrated at an ounce per lon.

The manager of tho Troy Company reports.that operations will cease for a few days until tho company is legally constituted, as tho preliminary call has been expended. Since Mr Olarko took. charge the operations hare been of a prospecting character, trenching on .tho spur towards tho National boundaryNothing, however, of a permanency has beeniound here' beyond surface quarlz. tJnder the same spur a shallow drivo was carried in for 30 feet, but it is not far enough ahead to ascertain from whence

the loose quartz on the surface is shed. On another spur running- nearly north and south there is a largo body of quartz and conglomerate about 11 feet, and hugging the back of this is a leader two feet wide, of a friable crystalised whitish brown. A small underlie shaft was sunk upon for_ 8 feet, and at this depth it increased in size, and becomes more solid! Several mortar tests wore made from this, each of which yielded gold, and .when operations are resumed attention will be again!devoted to it. ."..'.

The_ Trianglo manager has ceased operations in the tunnel, and returned to the shaft, where he has resumed sinking upon the veins, that formerly gave every appearance of becoming solidified m depth. On my last visit, the original bottom had not been materially deopened, but the prospects that were tried on Saturday, wero very, satisfactory, ; and should sth'e expectations of the manager be realised with regard to compactness, then the company will possess, to every appearance, a goo.d payable lode.

. As intimated on Friday, the Golden Arrow Company's'manager had secured a large body of promising-looking stone in south-west portion of the mine, I have since paid a visit ,to the workings, and .find "that the outcrop of what appears to he a lode has been secured, which from its nature and constitution resembles very strongly the Ho. 2 reef of the prospectors, The crust of it is a brown conglomerate, and when this is pounded up a respectable show is got. Several trials havo been made, all of which show gold.more or less, and so' satisfied is the manager with the prospects, that he has ceased operations in the tunnel adjacent to tho Eldorado, and devoted his attention to tho new find. A day or two will enable him to penetrate well into the outcrop, when further remarks will bo necessary as. to its valuo, &e.