TE AROHA MINING NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 52, 29 January 1884, Page 3

TE AROHA MINING NEWS.

Te Aboha, Jan. 22. Things are exceedingly quiet here. Very little mining work is being carried on, and that little is being done by contracts. The impression here now is that the companies do do not care to resume work until more satisfactory arrangements can be made with the Battery Company in reference to the treatment of the tailings, for, until all the gold can be obtained from the tailings, it will not pay some of the companies to continue crushing as they have been. The weather continues rough and squally. Thames. Jan. 22. Sharemarket.—Deep Level Cross, 3s. Id buyer, 3s. ; Hand of Friendship, sellers, 3g’ 3d ; London, sellers, 2s. Bd. ; Imperial, 23s to 255. ; buyers, 24s ; Queen of Beauty, 2s. 6a - New Find, Ils. * ’ Imperial.—Some picked stone was o fo. tained from the winze on No. 1 lode to.d ay ' The winze on No. 2 looks well, the l o d e showing gold very freely. London.—The cross-cut should be within a few feet of the winze. There is w el i. miner . ahsed quartz in the face. The ma nager a oes “ ot u ex ?u tly Position, but thinks the reef probably has divided into two branches, one underlying westward which is the favorite underlie on the field. ’Q n 1 level, the underlie of the reef waa weater£ but since then it has been ea ster iy, that is owards Shortland. The run o f go 7 d aeema to be dipping hlUward, so that it probably has dipped out of the will, but 8S a £ew ,^ t o£ driving will probably find it , aa gold waa seen near the bottom of the winze Pinafobe.—Delahunty a nd part j tributers, havejust finished a crushi ng o£ three loadg o£ quartz and3lb. of picked stone, with a yield of 3ox. Idwt. melted gold.

Darwin.—The mine manager’s report, dated the 19th instant, is to the following effect: —On above date sinking winze on the lode was commenced by shooting down a portion standing stripped in chamber, and gold was freely seen in it, together with a few pieces of picked stone. The winze is being sunk on the western end of the chamber, and

the lode at the point worked upon, and able to be estimated, is l|ft. wide, and is in the finest possible golden country. A day or two are required fairly to start the winze; after that it vill be sunk at us rapid a rate as possible.