THE THAMES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 102, 14 December 1868, Page 300

THE THAMES.

RECENT CRUSH- ' -,r' ; ; .

:. (From' the. Thames Advertiser, December 2;) - The • Sydney Minttelaim is about' to erect] a-20-stamper jaattery on their ground, at Tinker’s? Gully, a branch creek-.

The Kuranui Company's Battery -is is i busily employed crashing; for; the Awanul claica with one battery;: and for the Pride of Erin with the :other. stuff of both looks : well< on: the plates.- n The battery has finished crushing for* the Berkley Castle claim, the retorting: is not yet completed,, the result, however, it is believed* will-be satisfactory. , > ;v i: The Dauntless claim’s stone; crushed at] the Victoria battery, turned:-out 141 ounces of gold from 200 pounds of stone.

The whole force of the Victoria Battery is now.employed in crashing for No. 1 Madman's Gully claim. Nearly 1,000 ounces of amalgam have been taken off the plates since Wednesday night last. The Break o’ Day Battery is still employed in .crushing for the Rising Sun and Bee Hive claims, both, of which are making a good show. We have been informed that the Rising Sun claimholders intend keeping one battery constantly employed. . Eaton’s battery, on the Karaka, is giving a great deal of satisfaction under the new manager, who has altered the tables, and got: the whole battery into proper working trim. . The bat? tery.is still employed crushing for the Loyalty and Atlantic claims, both of which are looking well. The Una Quartz. Crushing. Company’s battery is employed crushing for the Lone Star and Day Spring claims. About 20 pounds of amalgam have already been taken off the plates of the battery which is crushing for the Lone Star, although the stuff which is being crushed is a lot of stuff and debris from .which the shareholders did not expect any great returns. The stuff from the Day Spring claim is also turning out well; The shareholders of the. Ben Lomond claim,, next the Auckland Re serve, on the Hape Creek, struck a new leader in, a shaft twenty-eight feet deep, from which some excellent specimens were taken out last evening.

The miners of the Young American claim, Moanatairi, are taking out some fine stone. We were informed by one of the shareholders that •£IOOO has been refused for a half share in this claim.

The Enterprise claim, on the Shelback Creek. Two fine leaders have been cut in a drive, which the miners of the claim are entering through their ground. One of the leaders is composed of brown quartz, and is about two feet thick ; the other is blue and white quartz intermixed with blue mullock. ■

The-owners of Shaw’s .Reef, on the Shellback Creek, had five pounds of their new leader tested at Mr Spencer’s, the result being two grains of gold.

The Manurika is a claim of six men’s ground on the Kuranui ridge, between the Eureka, Columbia, and Golden <:Belt claims. A fine leader about two and . a half feet through, and composed :of bluish crystallized quartz, bas been cut in a shaft which is sunk to a.depth of forty feet; a fine lot of specimens have been taken from this leader: during the last few days. The shareholders intend (sinking, this shaft to a depth of eighty feet before they commence to drive ou this leader. The;reef of the Columbia claim .has also been met in another shaft, which is sunk: to a depth of forty feet, sand some good specimens taken from it. The Goldenßelt reef also runs through this ground. .= , • 1;