TE AROHA.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5283, 28 September 1885, Page 3

TE AROHA.

[from our own correspondent.]

Tβ Aroha, Saturday,

New Find.—Tho stopos nbovo the low level still continue to turn out largo quantities of vorygood dirt.- In tlio slopes obo've the'intormediato level gold ennbe seen froely in the stone, and judging;from the dirt now going through , tlio buttery -a good return ehoiild be the result of this month's crushing.

IGolonist.—The stopes above the [low erel are yielding' very good.dirt^gold showing freely through the reef, which is about ten feet wide, :In the'stopea above No. 2 lovei the dirt coming to hand is not quite so good, but still is payable. During, the laet; week a fresh contract for breaking 0ut.300 trucks lias been let to. Lyons and party at 15s per foot Two men are still driving on the reef in the, low level. "■'■'

Silver King.—Two men are now employed on this lease, and judging from the appearance of the stone coming to hand it shoujdcbntato'a fair percentage of silver. Five tons, of ore were shipped, yesterday per ; the.s.s.;Kotuku for the N.Z. Smelting Company, Thames for treatment as soon as. the furuaco starts.

Silver Queen.—This lease, adjoining tho Potatarau lease,-takes in the old Moa 'No. 2 ground. ; T\vo men are now employed, breaking out ■ a test of 10 tons (from theiaame reef as the Silver King), to be, eent to tho. Thames for treatment. There is a little' silver to be seen in the stone; tho reef is about 4 feet wido. ! ..GAlsna (late Lucky Hit).—Mr Adams ihai put two men onshore to break out ten tons of galena ore for the Thames furnace. The reef is about six feet wide and contains, a large amount of leadoro. From tests made lately silver exists in a payable quantity. -Should the tests prove satisfactory it will, greatly enhance the .value of the May Queenj. Invernessi-aud, Phcenix mines as the reef goes through theso compaoies' gronhdi Part of" the" old Chance ground has been taken up by the. battery ;cothpany.:the object, being! io secure; the Chance level, whichj --'i by a; littlo-iaore driving, would cut tho reef about 200 feet below the surface. , ; Lonb Hand.—The low level is in about sixty, feet, and another twenty feet of driving should bring it well up to the reef. As only two men are employed very littlo can be; accomplished in a woek. ■; -The new rush above Tui still continues to attract most atteation, and yesterday several more leases were pegged/opt, Mr. Robson was busy yesterday testing the; stone from thereof, and some very good: buttons of bullion were obtained. Tho stone havingbeenkdocked off .the cap of the!!reef, !and taken from seren'or'eight different kases, , in each test silver being' obtained, the lowest teet being about forty ounces.. , ; ;.- •: > - ,:

: List of Tisitors to the baths:—Mr MeDougal and servant, Queensland Mrs and Miss Westley, Melbourne;'' Miss Law, Duhedin;- r Mr : R..' Scullin, Groymouth; Rev, Father Kehoe, Southland; Mr Loyen; and Mr T.R. Burrer, j Mir. Quilfo'rd, Mr W. Mainland Mr,A. Main,' England; Mr aod Mrs Philson, Professor and Mrs; BftldwiDJ'Megsrs L'. Jpurdain; Bi L. Hirst, S. Bailey, 'ft. Craig,' J. W. Salmon, Osniand, ! ;', Bathhouse, Coatee, ! Hanmer, , Olianibera, Beale, Bell,Odpn, Penn;; jNorthgate, Rev.-I , ..Long,.,Mr;and. Mrs Tiioroe and family, Mrs and Master Carr, ; .Auckland; .Mr.and 1 Mrs Whitehouse and family, Messrs Cahill, D. H. Bayldon, Qeb:' Banke/and Mrs Wiseman, 1 Thames; Messrs; Hitchman Ji n,W.' Gall, 'Fdrsaithi and Baldwin, Waikato'; ■Mγ"Claude, Ota; huhii'';"' Messrs Barrett and;Liddie'i'P.aeroa; and Mr G. Shaf teßbury." '