OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3469, 12 November 1879, Page 3

OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD.

(PBOJI OOK OWST OOEEESPONDBNT.) Owhaeoa, Monday.' The Smile of Fortune battery during the last few days has been undergoing repairs, and has started crushing for the No. "4 tributers of the Smile of Fortune, and on a small parcel from the Badieal. 1 'I he stone going through is not up to the average trom tlie No. 4 level, but as the tributers have been taking several feet, a small return per ton will pay. Tho No. 1 tributers have a large lot of crashing dirt out, and are waiting an opportunity to crush, 'i he' sooner the owners of the battery alter the present system of driving tho better for themselves and the district, as the present modo is not only expensive, but too slow. If the battery was brought across the river, stone could bo orushed at one half the present cost, and then pay tho battery proprietors better than at present. In the Badioul both parties of tributers are still at work, but very little stone is com* ing out of the mine. At Waitekauri the Golden Point tributers have put through some 50 tons of stone from the large reof, and they consider the return a payable one. In the Youbg New Zealand, Welcome, and Waifekauri, the tributers are all getting out quariz. Another start is to be made in the Old Shannon and Fergus ground, it having been taken up again lately.