MINING NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8198, 10 August 1895, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

•HAZELBANK. Shares in this company began rising on Thursday afternoon, at advanced as high as 6s. and which figure sales were made, with still further buyers, For some time past this proporty has been in the hands of Mr Melville on the Home market, and it is therefore probable that the prospects of the salo being effeeted are pretty certain, and that private news to that effect has been received by cable, but up to the time of our going to press no definite iuforraa'ion was received. WH AREKEIR ATJPUN 6 A. The special correspondent of the Haurald Tribune writes as follows of one of the good things which Mr Kersey Cooper took home with him yesterday " Wharekeiraupunga, ' The place of a hundred .piingas,' is almost the latest ground .peeged out in the wide s retch of land kuown as Waitekanri, It is within some four or five miles of the sea, but is amongst the ranges, and to get to it one way, the Wharekeiraupunga stream has to be crossed eight tim?s, It can also be reached by way of Parakiwai—but in that case you may bavo to cross thellikutaia river nineteen times! This need not be so; but it has been the distinguishing chnfncteristio of our wooden gods of the County Council to do things in such a way as to keop any part of tho field wMrc they woro not in it baek(vard~and although they had a Government }?rant of £200 to make a road to these mines seven or eight years ago, they let it slide. The place is really about six miles from the old Wailokauri battery, and a road of 1 in 10 grade-cm be made to it, That is, however, enough of tho road for tho presont. As to the country itself, tho first claim worked—and I believe the only ono to tho present time—the Brothers claim, was registered in 1888 by C. F, Mitchell and Louis and Andrew Dihar, The ground was worked by eleven hands for three years, and a very good share of work done, but owing to the difficulties encountered in raising money to go on with some of the men wentgum-dipginp; a plaint was laid, and Warden Stratford declared the ground forfeited. Thomas Henry Russell was not about at that time. The ground has twice boon taken up and again abandonod by Malcolm Fleming aud others, As to the value of the country, during tljo time the

first prospectors bad it—Mr 0. F. Mitcl.e'l and the Messrs Dihars, had several prospects taken, and ilw retf gave returns by battery, fir J and Hank assay from 3 to 2'B ounces to the ton, I stand as your authority for this statement, as I myself packed some of the stuff, C. ]?. Mitchell and William Lodder had another claim, which gave vt ry good results, but was never worked. As those minrs have now been again taken up, and aro taken home by Mr Kersey Cooper, to bo floated on the London marked, I trust they will be as successful as I always hoped they would be when I had to do with them."