MINING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 10, 5 July 1873, Page 8

MINING.

Ihe monthly Otago Northern escort has brought to Dunedin the undermentioned quantities of gold :-Queenstown, l,l6&>zs 7dirts"s 13dwt8 5 Clyde 250OZ8; Alexandra, 336bzs2dwts; Teviot, 404o» 3dws ; Blacks, 600OZ8; Dunstan Creek, 508oza ; Mount Ida, 1,4890z. WwtsV 68> J Palmer3ton > )39028 J total, 7,^oS ™,>^ U T h % rt&ntiemea from Greymouth and Uokitika paid a special £ unrtt Bm A ner f . al " miae The visitors were shown through the underground workings, ana those of the- company who had not previously visited the mioe were surprised at tbi extent of the coal deposits, and expressed themselves m terms of astonishment at the magmtudeand quality of the coal seam. One of the visitors, M* Dyer, one of the head agents in New Zealand of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, is well acquainted with the princS coX B T I J l eW | OUtbV7al^ andhe "^ thepei * » otfl 4 totTSS»r« nf° tl^ Brunner .ooal deposit in any part of Australia that he it aware of. He was under the impression that the reports he heard of the mine were grossly exaggerated, but he is now satisfied of the great value aad extent of the Brunner coal deposits. Christmas'" 01 ' 086 ' 1 f ° h ° ld ** exhibltion of mi n«wls at Hokitika next The 'Ross Guardian' learns that Mr Lord has been lately engaged making a new survey of the reservoir attaohod to the WaimeaSrr C< ™ and Mr ST 5a95 a 9 beßn .P"^ 1 * *>* » foundation for the dam. The dam at the deepest place will be 40ft high, from 16 to 18ft acrow, and will supply 40 head* of water for a month, without woK NeTSnd. oom l> let ° d . fchi » will be the large* water

News has been received in Greymouth that the Wealth of Nations Company s washing up for three weeks and two days was 224,0 i defi'nedre f manager reports having struck another wslK «, i Th^ "^P 1 ? o**0 ** corespondent of the « Southern Cross* says that S%W*^ f Heri . Tu P» M » who lately visited the Waikato, stated that bat for the attack made upon Mr Mackay, he (Heri) « had almost consented to go to Tuhua with Rewi, who told him that there was 1 large lump of gol.d, there -as he described it— several feet long and very thick. Rewi also said that there was plenty of gold at Eur*kia,i» mountain belonging to the Ngatiraukawa, who are Heri Tupaea'a own peopte. Rewi described lumps the size of his hand, very heavy. The attack on Mr Maokay, of course, put aside any intention he might have formed of going to either of these place*, for he lpoked on Mr Mackav as one of his, own peqplej so he determined to return to Taurus* though much disappointed at having to do so." The Moanatairai (Thames) Gold Mining Company has accepted a Sttw ° BrS aser aQd Tinne for the erecti ° n of a 41-stamper-From the " Cromwell Argus" we learn that several shares ia mining properties " on the famous Golden Lead," at Cardrona, hn» lately changed hands at high prices. v Wit * *?&*?£ t0 minia g aff «*» i» the Wakatip district the » Mail ' ♦w 2? following unsatisfactory remarks-, " There can be na doubt tfiat the late floods have done serious damage to the mining interest, it is very disheartening to travel through whole districts and haveeverywhere presented to view a scene at wreck. River claims, covered with debris 5 tail races made as level as a gravelled pathway s water-nero broken away, and large landslips in a number of place*, rendering, all former operations of no avail or value. In a monetary > nW 86 t"\dßmaget "\ dßmage dd ° tte ImUßt1 mUBt be very great. It is so general and complete that sympathy between one party of miners and another is Hardly expressed. Every one is more or less a sufferer. Therefore imt alleviation is practicable. A visit through the gold bearing regious within the last few days makes us think that W. portion of the public who are not engaged in mining have little, if any" conception of the consequences hke]y to iollow from theae floods. rioz^fsme'ited^ofd: **" W6BtW *»***»* *™# PA. nnn me £ r , O8 P?. ct ? rs . in the Northern Territory (Australia) are asW £4,000 cash for their interest in claims there.— Two tons of quaruf from .the Princess Louise mine, shipped per (Gothenburg, baa been u»ored at th* declared value of £300.--The total yield of oS crushing from Krohmann's claim (Hillend, N.S.VT.) is 5,400 ouncoi of gold, obtained from 5* ton of quartz. The quantity hanked was 4 500 ounce* i ; bigots . at battery, 500 ounces, and tilings and specimens yielded 4,00 ounces. The Geelong < Evening Times • reports ER auction ian haa been invented for ventilating mines. It has been put in pructictt with complete success at a mine, where it drowout the foul air a: a distance of 1,100 feet. A valuable and accessible discovery of coal at Mangawai is reported in the Auckland papers. The coal is stated to bo of excellent quality, the vein vary wide, and nothing to prevent it being; worked extensively, aud in the most successful manner. «. ele e ramß »* the , P?nedin 'Evcuiag Star' say :-The yield frou the Thames last month was 16,505 ounces from 1^520 tons of stone >

SV at j£l0 > 000 hate been paid in dividends during the last month „ The Bendi«o coirespondent of the Cromwell Argus write* — Sluicing operations, so far as the limited water supply permits are being vigorously prosecuted, tfhe frost, as yet, has not seriously interfered with the tail races, which is a singuiar and unwonted fact n tins time of the year.