MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 84, 10 January 1885, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

Although the, .loiiuajb are over work lias not yet. U-ou s> oner. illy resumed, and :i id • >uit m all tin* cairns will nut be made belore Monday 801110 of tne corirtraei parties i!i the New Find mine have again si-ulod down to Initour; and others are .lbuuf. to no so. Tn .the 1 Colonist a cl)ah t _;c in tiic bj-lcin of operations has been intioilu od, il having been i(eci(i< l 'l that win revcr pmcli al«le the work shall be'-lono by coutruut. Tenders have a|rea<ly !»eeu <;ulied .For aiyl aocepl-id for sloping ami for iVnvinj» in the low level, and tucsi- 1 wml|c*> v will l>e Imm diatc.lv rbt!»rt«<l,—^A-iV.w w«,,i>i'S nien.aiv I'n^aged in breaking out stone hL the north end of the No. 2 level, from wliii'h place tlic 84 ton parcel that yielded 29oz' whs I taken immediately prior to the holidays?. The Diamond Gully is in full work, tl^ j fj beinsr nurnin manned and stone of 1 vera^e quality coming therefrom. ]" w inten-lod snortly to resume ihe sinl,

n >• of 'the winze put down some 15 feet, from the floor of the level a few months fv.ro, and in which excellent staff wig obtained. Should '.he same- prospects j continue, )>repnrations will quickly be ' made for commencing alow love!. In t"'e Waiorongomai Claim also, work is again in hll swing. Driving .has been resumed in the low level on the reef at the north end of the ground, and the intermediate fevpl is also being carried on. Tue hopper and shoot for the wo.lcings at the south end sire approaching completion, and a tramway is being laid to connect them with the minn, In another week or ten days things will be in n si fficiently forward to admit of (-tuif being forwardod to the battery. The May" Queen Co. have again 'started f * :ind are pushing the low level ahead. From the hanging wall portion of the >eef stone yielding good prospect is now being and as the face is fast, approarhing the bottom of tiie lower winze, :i further impi"venicut may he looked i or. In the Inverness, I'noeuix, nnd Canadian operations aie again noin<; on, lint nothing of importance uas yet tunic I >!ji in these mines. The tramway i.. idle, there bring no stuff in the Soppers at thj minvs to keep Iho meu employed. A Mifticimt quantity will probably have accmnnhilcii before the middle of next week, when a fresh start will be made. The only work at present goinif on at the battery i^ the grinding of tadings for the New Find Co. The sound of the stampers will not. be heard for a few dny* 4 yet. The party pout out by tue Pio^pecling Association are at woilc in the neighbourhood ff the head of Sttmey Creek. Tisev have succeeded in finding, very good surface prospect*, and are now en<>aged putting in a drive to test the reef from which the gold is supposed t_> have come. Loose stones yielding good motar prospects aho abound in tiie vicinity, and (here is every re i son to believe that the search for paying reefs on this side of the mountain wi.l yet be successful.