MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 129, 3 June 1870, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Pioneer Company. — We have been requested to call attention to an error that appeared in the Colonist of Tuesday last, where it was stated that the " copper lode is five feet thick." The facts are as follows : — The shaft has been sunk 30 feet, and at the bottom of it a cross cut has been made through the lode to ascertain. its thickness, which has proved to be eleven feet, producing copper ore more or !es3, throughout. Perseverance Company. — By the last steamer from Collingwood intelligence was received that a drive had been completed at 140 feet below where the reef is being worked at its highest point, and that it Las at that level been struck, showing a thickness of from two to three feet. The stone ia much harder than at the higher elevation, and improving in quality. The first crushing was to take place to-day or to-morrow, but the results will not ba iknown va Nelson until next Thursday. I Karamea Diggings. — We have been [informed that a digger has just returned,

to Motueka, from the Karamea, after an absence of four or five months, bringing with him, after having paid all expenses, about three pounds weight of gold obtained in that district. He says if there were a road made, it would turn out a very extensive poor man's diggings, but at present they experience great difficulty in obtaining provisions.

The Kurantji Company. — Splendid Gold Return. — The following are the returns for the three months up to Saturday last, including the yield in melted gold and the quantity of stone put through : — 265 tons, 2470z 9dwt 12gr; 232 tons, 4930z 14dwt; 238 tons, 9390z I7dwtj 370 tons, 1,2190z 17dwt; 328 tons, 9040z 9dwt 18gr; 378 tows, 819oz 6dwt; 400 tons, 9090z l7dwt; 370 tons, ],020oz Bdwt. Total, 2,581 tons, 6,5540z 18dwt 6gr. The result of the crushing for the last mouth amounts to 1,9300z of melted gold from 770 tons of stone. The company keeps 30 head of stampers at their own battery constantly employed. — Thames Advertiser, May 30.

The Maetin's Bay excitement, writes the Queenstown correspondent of the Dunstan Times, still continues, and numbers of miners are proceeding towards the head of the Lake and the West Coast. A Mr. Burleigh, who had been prospecting some deep ground near Glenorchy for ten months, came upon payable gold a few months since, but of course it would be premature for any rush to set in yet. I have not heard that Fox and party, or any of the other prospectors have succeeded in finding anything beyond the color ; yet there is very little doubt that something will turn up soon, as so many are looking after the coveted metal. On the coast itself there appears to be a number of mining parties scattered about. Considering the prospects for new comers, the settlement ought to go a-head. Over twenty miles of the track are already cut, and six months hence will place ub within one day's ride of Lake M'Kerrow from the "Wakatip.

Native Intelligence. — From Napier we learn that Witty's party have returned to Mohaka, having scoured all the country between there and Waikaremoana. They pursued for two days the tracks of natives, who at last escaped by crossing the lake in a canoe. Hamlin's force came across tracks of the enemy near Ohiwa, twenty miles on the Wairoa side of the Waikaremoana Lake, which they followed until they came up with the enemy, of whom they shot four. No casualties occurred on our side. One rifle, one double-bar-relled gun, some ammunition, and 300 caps were taken; and several canoes and plantions were destroyed. The force composing the expedition is not paid. Ropata, with 440 Ngatiporous, left Poverty Bay on Wednesday for Waikaremoana. The Breton mariner, on putting to sea, touchingly prays, " Keep me, my God ! my boat is so small and thy ocean so wide."