MIMING NEWS. THE KUAOTUNU GOLDFIELD. CRUSHINGS AT THE THAMES. SPLENDID FIELD. TWENTY OUNCES OF GOLD TO THE TON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 429, 18 December 1889, Page 4

MIMING NEWS. THE KUAOTUNU GOLDFIELD. CRUSHINGS AT THE THAMES. SPLENDID FIELD. TWENTY OUNCES OF GOLD TO THE TON.

Thames, Dec. 13. The Kauotunu crushings have been finished at the Moanataiari Battery, and all have resulted very satisfactorily indeed. Four tons were crushed from the Try Fluke claim, but the exact return cannot be ascertained, as }fr Hornibiook does not intend making it public until tho result 13 known from a similar parcel now in course of treatment at Frascr's works, Auckland. I am reliably informed, however, that the four tons yielded between 17 and 20oz to tho ton Two tons of quartz from the Otama claim produced 13oz lOdtvt of gold, which with the 9oz lOdwt previously obtained from the 41b picked stone makes tic total return 230z of gold. This was subsequently reduced on melting to 220z lOdwt. The crushing of quartzs from the Maori Dream and Just in Time claims are not yet completed.

Thames, Dec. 14. vVardkn's Court.— ln the course of the proceedings of the Warden's Court yesterday an application was made by Mr J. A. M filer on behalf of Mr T. H. Uu>sell for four months' protection for the Britannia claim, at Waihi. Mr Northcroft said that after the holiiays he intended to make a clean sweep of many of these claims. He waB of opinion that those persons who had been given a year's protection for areas of ground in order to float them, but had failed in to doing, should give some one else a chanco to take them up. It was therefore his (the Warden's) intention to instruct the Mining Inspector after the New Year's holidays to lodge plaints against every one of those large area 3 where they had been held for twelve months and had not been floated. Mr Miller remarked that in the case before the Court eight months' protection had so far been granted, so that they were within tho year. The Warden replied that such was conect, but then the Waihi Co. had nearly the whole of Waihi, and he would like to know when the reduction works were likely to make a .start. Mr Miller read a letter from Mr Russell, to the effect that the works wore now on the verge of completion. The Warden said that in a great many instances where large areas of ground had been granted, the persons to whom they had been given had asked for time to enable them to float companies, and in the meantime only one or two men werekeptscratchingon the surface. If these persons could not do anything in the way ot floating companies in a year, they should abandon the ground, and give others a chance to take it up. The Kimberley special claim was a case in point. He knew that several parties were willing to take it up in small area?, and he failed to see why they should not be allowed to do so ; ho would not grant any further protection for it, more than a year having elapsed since it was first taken up. However, he would grant the application of Mr Russell for a period of four monthb' protection for the Britannia claim, on the understanding that something would after that be done upon it. Norfolk. — Seven tenders were received yesterday afternoon by tho manager for sinking the winze from Cook's old workiDgs to connect with No. 2 level, the lowest being that of Milletfc and party at 6? per foot. The next lowest tender was 8s 6d,