MINING NEWS. Thames, May 14.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 369, 18 May 1889, Page 4

MINING NEWS. Thames, May 14.

Paroqdet (Waiomo).— Work in this mine is to be resumed at an early date. The wire ior the tramway has arrived in Auckland, and as &oon as it is received at Waiomo it will be erected. During the latter part of last week the battery was running on the Gem Co. 'B quartz, the treatment of which has been finished and the return should be to hand this afternoon. Another trial parcel of several tons is to be put through tor the dame Company fiom the big reef on the bottom level, upon which there is an exten&ive block available, should it prove payable. Gem (Waiomo). — Operations in this mine have been lenewed with an mci eased stall of workmen, a large parcel io being broken out from the big reef. The winze is down 54 teet, the reet in the bottom being 2or three feet in thickness, and bhowing colours of gold when broken down. New Moanataiart. — A distance of 27ft has now been driven in the main crosscut at No. 4 level, Darwin section, to meet the winze sunk from the level above. The j diive is clear of the reef and in a somewhat tight sandstone. In ihs Cambiia section the intei mediate drive i<« now in the Company's ground, and in future the quartz broken out will be saved for treatment. With referonce to the cleaning out and repairing of the Moanataiari main tuntul, the bottom ot the Point Russell winze has now been reached. Crushing is still proceeding on surfaco dirt, but it is shaping about the same as the last. Trenton. — The crosscut at the Cambria No. 4 level is in 36rt. , and the drive from the Company's own bhait33lr. The country in the fonmr is a favouiable clas* oi sandstone, but in the latter it i« very hard. Upx'kk Takaru. — A paicel of fair picked stone obtained from the Met maid and N^mph claims bus been on view at Fiater Bros.' offices. Very little work has yot been done, however, to prove whether the ret-t foimation canies down w aids. Gem. A partial cleaning up has taken place from >he amount of amalgam on hand from plates for the yield o! Ilozlsd\\t, from hot water amalgam* It has not turned out according to the amount of gold seen since sinking was commenced. Good piogress is being made in the mining operations. Saxon. — This morning the mine manager wired : — "30lb picked stone from leading stope No. 1 main leef noar winze, No. 5 level." Thames Mining and Prospecting Company (Collarbone). —Mr Crawlord to-day leceived a cablegram from Melbourne authoiipinjj him to accept Ensor and party's, tender at£l 7s 5d per foot for binkiug the main shaft 100 feet. Saxon.-— The fortnightly cleaning up and retorting took place today, for a yield of 3780z ol gold from 336 louds of geneial dirt and 361b of picked s one. Sluicing Company. —The Tapu Sluicing Company's operations are now in full swing. The Company, which consiht of several Thames and Auckland gen tit men, are working an alluvial deposit in ground comprising the Old Tapu Mint and Marquis of Hastings claims at the back of Hawke's Hotel, ai-d t his side of the creek. Tuey ha\ c extended Pepper's water-race duwn to the battery site, and erected a pump which conveys the water into a dam at the height of 110 feet. This water is brought to the face of the claim by an underground drain, and from thence 50 or 60 tons of stulfare sent down daily (only requiring one man to do the work) by a flume to a macuine in the battery building, in which it is thoroughly puddled, the machine working at tha rate of 200 revolutions per minute. It ia afterwards spread along lables by the action ot the water, and by this means the gold is saved in the tipples in the or dinary way, the gravel and quartz being put aside to be treated by berdnns. The wholeof themachinerv used by this Company wae des-iyned, constructed, and erected by Messrs Price Bros. The process i 3 a new ' departure from anything hitherto seen ] here, and its progress will be watched with much iuteiebt. The claim comprises about SOacies, anct it is estimaied that the amount of stuff to be treated is very large. Mr James Thorburn is manager for the company. Thames, May 15. Saxon. The return of 3780z retorted gold telegraphed yesterday was reduced on melting to 3730z. The additional ten head of stampers at the Cambria batiery were started yesterday, making 32 now engaged in.the reduction of quartz from this Company's mine. The consequence of this increased crushing power, the workinsr staff has been supplemented by several more miners. The work of cleaning out and laving down rails in the drive near the old llemati c Company's plant is proceeding. Lone II and. — The reef in the rise and leading stope has again been broken down, when dabs of go d were freely seen distributed through tue quartz. The r»se is being put up for the puipose oi allowing a second stope being commenced, and is now almost up the required height. The drive hill ward is being pushed ahead through an excellent class of sandstone, but none of the reef has been broken down for the past few days. There is no change to report in the Manchester stopes. Thames Mining and Prospecting Com pany. — The work of sinking the main shaft wa« started to-day. Caledonian. — The minemanagerreports: In driving on the reef at the intermediate level, a leader eight inches thick was discovered coming in from tha hangingwnll, and bringing with it a milder class of sandstone lhan we linve been getting. This leader shows some nice mineral a'>d a few colours of gold. At No. 1 level the dv\\ cis being pushe i on for the junction of No. 1 and cross reefs. The country is tight, but otherwise good.

Hayter supplies the following statistics for the year 1888 : — The percentages of marriages in the seven colonies, per 1,000 of the population, weie : Victoria, 8 03 ; Now South Wales, 7 37 : Queensland, 8 63 ; South Australia, 661; Western Australia, 7-18; Tasmania, 6 -60; New Zealand, 5*97. The death rate was : Victoria, 15 34 ; New South Wales, 1354 ; Queensland, 14-66 ; South Australia, 11*92; Western Australia, 15-91 ; Tasmania, 14-11 ; New Zealand, 9*43. The percentages of births stood thus : — Victoria, 32*49 ; New South Wales, 36 # 18 ; Queensland, 37*77; South Australia, 33-34; Western Australia, 35"88 ; Tasmania, 33*10 ; New Zealand, 31*ii2. During the year the population of the Australian colonies increased 120,668, the increase in Victoria being 54,750 ; New South Wales, 42,437 ; Queensland, 20,523-; South Australia, 4,381 ; Western Australia, 351 ; Tasmania, 3,671 ; New Zealand, 4,019. Mr Carroll, of Hawera, towards the end of l»st year, sent some 25 kegs of butter to England per steamers Aorangi and Ruapehu. The butter sent per Aorangi realised 112s per cwt, that sent by the Kuapehu 114s per cwt. At the time it left here the local price was sd, whereas by sending it Home Mr Carroll ha* realised 9d per 1b clear oi all expenses. The result,' of course, is. eminently satisfactory.