COROMANDEL.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4197, 31 March 1882, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

i ! [By TELEGRAPH.] ; : ■ [FROM ODB OWN CORRESPONDENT] : • ; ;' , Cobomandel,' Thursday,.-Colonial,-^lri ! 'this'-mine, there, is a; general''improvement.; The level; earned beneath the winze formerly, sunk-by tkb' New Rakaia has proved that the rich lode' was not' cut off,as,believed,!but'thata. break of a few feet existed, nnd liad the. old company continued 9 feet they would, have picked up tho lode again.: Now-the Colonial have it in hand, witli good gold showing in tlio stone broken out, ;, Tokatea. -For a week or two past the mine looked but during.. the last 24 hours a great change for the better is apparent, both in the main and intermediate level.'; '' In about a.;week .stoping ojj'erations, will; bp jn full swing,'.and' this, will be the 'first important block of ground, taken out since No. .7 level was put in.: The next three l months':operations: will be watched, with great interest;! 1 - ••'! j •' Coromandel Just-in-Time.'—The erection of machinery is progressing under tho supervision of ' Captain^'Thomas, managing director. i The Success continues to get a modicum of good stone. '■; ■ ; Thb' : Stanley also continues to keep a! very fair show in hand. I At the Tiki things look . very. well. Blaekmore has banked 182ozs Iretorted gold, which melted down to 175. ' In lliis mine, good.crushing dirt being got, and there is a reasonable expectation of the block just out proving highly remiinerajtive. . Tho' Home Rule: aro also getting good, crushing dirt;'" and the low level is going through somewhat tight country., i Vaughan and .Vizard's now-firid, above the Matatvai battery, has. led 'to nine claims being^taken"; up > in the vicinity; The. GoldQQ-Belt aro stripping a.'ijeef and will not be dono for a day or two. \ ; '. ; . Mr litzgibbon, native rived in tho Pearl from tho Thames, to; the consternation of the.. custodians! of jliis clothes;' it .having been reported that Fitz was dead, bis clothes had been giveh to the poor. ; . > i ".