OHINEMURI. KARANGAHAKE. [From our own Correspondent.] Paeroa, Tuesday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 349, 9 March 1889, Page 2

OHINEMURI. KARANGAHAKE. [From our own Correspondent.] Paeroa, Tuesday.

Crown.— The Company's Ma'nagor is pushing on the' works iti connection with both Mjne and Battery, having a large number of hands employed. Yesterday an additional ten meri started work on the two cross-cuts, contracts for which have been let to Bauld and party for low-level at 15a iper foot, and Kneebone and party, intermediate, at 14s 9d per foot. The Manager, Captain Coward, has moved into his new residence. ' Mr Smeaton, the Company's Assayer, arrived here last week from Glasgow. Mr Dickey, carter, has got the base of the storie-breaker to the top of the Spur above Eailey's. It proved an awkward load on a bad road, weighing about threeand a half tons ; this completed all the heavy portions or the • machinery. A start will be made at once to get the grinders into position. The Cassel Gold 'Extracting Co'sManager is busy with the working drawings and specifications of their plant. Tenders willbeinvited soon for erection of buildings. Mr Cock has started on his contract for erecting two cottages, and expects to have them completed in four weeks. Kemlworth : Messrs Shepherd and party commenced work in their tributesection on Monday. lvanhoe and Trnro : This Company's battery is kept going steadily on quarts from their own mine. The machinery i» working well, but I have not heard how the stuff is shaping. Farmer Bros, are rapidly recovering from the effpcts oi their recent accidents-