MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

The erection o£ the Parkes' furnace jib Karangahake, is now completed, and the furnace fire was lighted For the first time yesterday, Ifc will require about a fortnight: to thoroughly season the brickwoik, however, so thai it will probably bo quite the end of the month bofcre smelting operations can bo commenced. There is already on the spot sufficient ore to supply the furnace for a considerable titue, and an ample supply is available from the various mines in the immediate vicinity. The chief bulk of the ore ready to be treated by the furnace is from the Woodstock and Kenihvorth mines, a largo proportion of which, judging 1 by the assay tests, is of very excellent quality. It is stated that probably about twenty tons of oro from the Champion Lode mines, Tui, will be the first smelted. All the fluxes and material required in connection with the smelting opeiations are now on the ground, including some fifty tons of coal, and seventy tons of coal additional are under way. The furnace, etc., h«s been erected under the personal supervision of Mr Parkes. With respect to the erection of a plant in connection with the Tui mines, Mr Parkes fissures us that so soon as work has been successfully started at Karangnhako, the erection of the plant for the Champion Lode Co.'s Claim at To Aroha will be next proceeded with, and erected with the least possible delay. Indeed, Mr Parkes assures us notHng 1 would induce him to leave New Zealand unt : l ho has erected the proposed plant at Tui, of the future of which, district he has formed an exceedingly high opinion. Mr Parkes arrived at Te Aroha from Karang.ihake on Thursday evening by coach, and left for Auckland by train yesterday morning, purposing to return again about the middle of next week. In the course of a recent conversation with Mr Parkes he informed us that arrangements have been completed in London by his son on his behalf for the disposal of the right to work Parkes' Patent liodnclion ProccsstoaverylargenndwealthyQut ensland syndicate, who own- upwards of 1000 acres of land, abound fug in coal and and metnls in great variety, including gold^.Hilver, copper, lead,, etc. The position of the company's property referred to is near Croydon, and we understand arrangements have been made on behalf of the syndicate f<»r the erection of no less than twenty of the Parkes furnaces to start with.