THE ALBURNIA.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1743, 4 August 1874, Page 2

THE ALBURNIA.

This Company have reconsidered the matter respecting the Black Angel tunnel, and have agreed with the Black Angel and Old WJhau Companies as to compensation —the Bjiack Angel to receive £200 and the Old Whau £300; the tunnel to be used jointly by all three companies. There are, I hear, but seventeen feet to drive from the present end of the tunnel to reach the Alburnia boundary and, I am informed, quartz. This arrangement, besides tending to drain the Alburnia mine, will give that company some splendid backs to work out, which will give employment to men and mill for some time to come ; but it must be understood that the mouth of the tunnel is much lower than the battery site. Whether the company intend building a hopper or a tram up to their own battery I have not yet heard. THE CENTRAL ITALY. The crushing for the Company has been completed to-day at .Webb's battery. The result has been much more successful than expected, 183 ounces of smelted gold having been banked. This is the second lot lodged belonging to the crushings for July, but the first lot of 241 ounces was out of June stone. Nevertheless the mine yield of gold for July is 483 ounces melted gold. The manager speaks hopefully of the stuff that will be obtained, from the bottom level of the mine, and has to-day started to cross-cut towards a lot of stringers that seem to bear away to a body of stone overhead that has not as yet been: prospected. The lodes being worked on show no marked difference since last reported, the crushing stuff being sent to the paddock with '■ the same regularity -as to j quantity as during the last month.