MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 2

M I N ING N E WS.

During the greater part oC the past week only 10 head oC stampers h.ive been tit work at the Waiorongomai battery, owing to scarcity of water Tor motive power ; uncl tlioro is no nows to vecord with icspect to the work in progress in tho several mines. Tho iaiut'<dl dming tho past 2-i hours has caused a i'ro^Ji in tho ercoks and the full number of atiunpers arc again at work. Mr Adams expects to have the new branch water-race completed within tho next two or three days, and the extra supply of water which will be thereby obtained, available next week. Tho return from the New Find miuo for the four weeks ending 1 IGLh inst. was as follows: •100 truck?, 200oz of reto'.ted

THE WAITOA DEPOSIT. HNCOUHAGJLNG RETURNS. Mr Strange, of Aylesbury Farm, Lower W.iitoa, is having a parcel of auriferous deposit, very siniilur in appearance to that found on Mr J. K. Smith's propetty, treated at Firth and Claike's batteiy ; a parcel of about lewt of the deposit refenod to, healed simply in berdans, gave a roiurn equal to 12s Ski per ton. (hie ton of the deposit from Mr J. B. Smiths farm, ti rated at Waioiongouiai battery, hns given a return of 12a per ton : Mr 11. H. Adam"?, tho manager, in communicating the result to Mr Smith, suid ho "was highly sntislkd, knowing that it had only had beidan treatment." These results arc very cucouraging.