TAIRUA GOLDFIELD.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2172, 13 October 1875, Page 3

TAIRUA GOLDFIELD.

(fboh oub'own cobbbspondent.) Nevbsvime, Tuesday, Thr prospectors' battery started work yesterday .morning, and' there is now a fair prospect of the crushing being znado a continuous one, for".Mr Bagger, who has all Mr Jackson's horses, is now packing the stuff to the battery with ten horses, and can forward from seven to eight tons per day, > This quantity is ' ample to keep the little battery in full' work.' There is good'rich, stone still coming to hand from the big reef, and theprospects are as rich as ever. The-manager of the Britannia is.slill engaged cutting out the chamber, but this will be finished to-morrow, and he will at once start sinkinq a winzo on the reef,. I expect that during the current week there will be some important news from this mine. Work has been properly started on the Golden Arrow reef. The prospects of this mine are considered excellent, and the] development- of the lode will bo watched with great interest, • H Ihe heavy rain last wiek created a great fresh in the river, and brought flown 1,000 logs for the Tairua Sawmill Company. There are now about 3,000 logs at the booms, and'this will prove an imple supply and will keep the mill efficiently employed • during the summer months. PIGEONGRAM. 1 Tuesday, 4 p.m. •A prospecting party has been out'for iome week's on the spur that divides Puriri Creek from Omahu, and have discovered a large rubbly reef, near to the break of the spur, that can be seen from Rowley's house.:. 281bs of stone were broken therefrom, and crushed in Shortland, yielding 19dwts of gold. Two leases have been pegged out, and the surveyor has now gone up to survey the ground. The position is about four miles south(vest of The Brothers claim, and about that distance east from Kowley's up a small stream from the right bank of : the river, or the next small. stream to the break in the range. My informant states that gold was found in the stream; and Followed up the lode. A further lot of stone will be broken out, as that may . jnly be a patch, but no gold whatever sail be seen in it, therefore it would be premature in oalling it a rich lode until further tried. , The Marco Polo lease, situated close to the Hercules, are getting nice gold in an 3-inch leader that shows in the face of the cliff. ; The Puketui manager is about to send down two tons of stone to the Tairua battery, and await there a chance of srushing. This has been deemed necessary before negotiations are entered into For the erection of a battery. The prospectors' battery is fully at ivork again.