WAIORONGOMAI.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 305, 6 October 1888, Page 2

WAIORONGOMAI.

At Waiorongomai the various works in connection with the erection of the new plant are progressing apace. It is expected the chimney stack for the revolving and reverberatory furnaces will be completed to-day. The height of the itack will be 65 feet. Several bricklayers are also busily engaged in pushing on with other portions of the outside work. The assay furnace, etc,, is also being 1 completed. A start to cut np the kauri timber into the sizes required, by means of a circular saw, was made on Wednesday last. The saw benoh is erected alongside the old battery j the motive power being supplied direct from the Pelton water wheel. The kauri is conveyed across the Waiorongomai creek by means of a wire tramway of about 4 chains in length, and from the termination of this wire tramway is conveyed by a horse-grade tramway, of about 19 chains in length, to the County tramway ; then loaded on trucks and conveyed to its destination adjoining the battery. We understand a number of carpenters will be put on in the course of a few davs. In the old battery, Mr Somerville, who has taken the contract for raising the forfy head of stampers about four feet, so as to allow of tho erection of the Frue concentrators (as already reported upon), is making fair progress with the work in hand ; and the foundation for the first ten head is now nearly completed. Mr J. McCosh Clarke, the Auckland director of the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co., arrived by train on Tuesday to inspect the works in progress, and accompanied by Mr H. H. Adams (the Company's Manager, and under whose supervision the whole of the works are being carried out), left again for Auckland via Thames, on Thursday.