MINING MATTERS AT THE NAMES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 155

MINING MATTERS AT THE NAMES.

•' jßwjfctlie Humes Advertiser, 13th jtrae.) THET-Epaom Independent Claim -includes eiglitimen’s^ground, 'adjoins theHappy-go-lueky, and Lord . Nelson claims, The 'grbuud has been got into'good working order, ahd' several well defined gold-bear-ifig loaders have been opened. A .reef some _ seven or eight feet id width, wliich i 9 b'elieved to ; be gold-bearing, ; has,likewise been opened, and the men are ; now engaged in sinking a shaft upon it/with every 1 prospect of a profitable return. The Columbia Claim, Moan atairi/has been -worked' 7 for two months by the present shareholders as six-men’s ground, having-peen previously, taken up and abandoned as worthless by several parties, The nearest machinery : is tha tin course of m-cdou for the Homeward Bound Gold Mining Company, on the ground of the of the De'ep Lead Claim, which will prove very serviceable to surrounding claims when'the complement of stamp heads have boen fixed;

The J Towney- Claim is a name given to two. men’s ground, situate between the Homeward Bound and Hobson’s * Park boundary pegs on the Kuranui ranges. The men have * struck the Hobson’s Park leader, which is two feet in thickness, and have consequently a. good' show for the short-time they have been on the ground. A shaft has been carried to a depth of 100 feet and a drive pub in to a distance of 80 feet. Leaders have. been*, opened to a depth of 60'feet, and some seven.’or' tons-/: of quartz hav9 been taken but in readiness for a crushing. . ■ ; ''- The He; p :Lead is a claim of seven men’s ground on the Ruranui hill, and adjoining the boundary pegs of the Kuranui Coim pany’s minf s-’/and - the -Homeward Bound Gold-A1 iniiij^rCompany. . A crushing:of lO tons oi rough, stone and mullock, from : which the uiost likely looking stuff had been yielded five ounc.s to the tour There are some 70 tons of quartz on-the ground in readiness to be crushed on the eomplelion.uf the Homeward Bound ma chinery, a site for which lias been supplied by the shareholders of tlii's-claim. '

One of the Mason’s patent quartz-crush-ing machines,has b.-en temporarily erected at the rear of the. Bank .pf Australasia’s premises, L’oilen-street, where it is availabl&'for miners desirous of testing its capabilities.;- -

.. The shareholders of the. Comet Claim, Tapu. Creek, brought up; nine c.vvt of stone from tho reef on; l heir, claim this week to be crashed at ; Sliortland. The.- sample of stuff did/f not coutain. a single specimen, ,o£ the/gene’ral >iold of the. reef. .-The'result of the crushing'was a yield of 14. ounces l7dwts:2lgrs. of retortad gold. We are requested to.explain that.the ton of 'stuff cru-hed by the shareholders A' the Golden Cup (lato .New Found Out) Claim, at M'LeocTs machine, which yielded a little over two ounces to the toil, was scarcely a fair sample of the g.-neral yield of the claim, as the stuff had been, bn the ground for several months,. aiid was taken out of the .claim long before the leaders were discovered to be so highly auriferous.' Fresh, patches of rich stone have been opened,/and some splendid specimens are being got out of the ground. . The Bank of Ireland Claim, Waiotahi struck a yery 'proinisirig leader on their ground yesterday,' and exhibit some/ splendid specimens, of quartz taken from it. •:' /./ •' ’

An equal half ‘sliare' in the Dawn of Hope Claim, -changed hands yesterday for £385. '' .

Messrs Graham’s and Goddall’s crushing machines were at standstill yesterday, owing to, the state of the. roads preventing the claimholders getting down/ their quartz.