MINING NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11483, 16 January 1903, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

The Waihi return is £27,952 from 10,623 tons ot stone for 15 days' nuskiiig. Mr J. K. Evans haa received from tits secretary of tho Mount Paparoa Go.dmining Company (Mr G. S. Cray) t_e following copy of iho mine mar.air.era report lor t_.o week ending the 10:h inst.:— ",.-_ have made fair progress during the week, and haw .needed the icvf. fourteen feet, being at the rat* of one foot for each shift we nave worked. When we c-ornrn:i:oed under the winze tbe reef was two feet six inches wide, but on 'Ihursday wo struck a splice reef on th. foolwaU, end now havo four feet six inches of reef en the face in soil country. Go.d is showing very frc.ly, ar.d the quartz contains lartre ve.ns of black mineral. 'the contractor for shifting the arrive terminal station h.is b:en delayed in bus work through 'bud weather." Mr Cray, who writ.* under ola> January 12th,. confirms the latter statement, end says that tho wt-ather has been unsatisfactory a!, through th. holiday.,, and that at the time of writing th.-re was no improvement. It is quite the wor*'. summer sea.«->n exrx-rienced during his re-., lrn.ee on th.' West CVast. Mr Cray adds:

--"The report from tho mine is .satisfactory, and when the manager srors th? lens-th of report. r.% that jro.d.is showing very freely, it can be taken that tho stone is rood. (■ r ha is a man who dors not exasperate matters." Mr Cray intended vUitina: the mine ir. the course of a few U_ya if tho weather improved.