Mining News.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 482, 21 June 1890, Page 2

Mining News.

KARANGAHAKE. (From our own Correspondent.) Woodstock United G. M. Co.: The management of this Company have at last made a start after some years of idleness. A contract for driving a cross-cut (to intersect the rich leader known as Shepherd’s) has been let to Clements and party at 17s 6d per foot. Moore and party (tributers in the Kenilworth section of the Company’s property) have 40 tons of first-class ore going through the rollers for sampling and assaying. I understand that this parcel has been purchased by Mr John Phillips, who intends to ship it to England at an early date. Adeline Amalgamated : Liddel and party (tributers) are having a parcel of 20 tons treated at the Christchurch Company’s Battery, they expect 5 or 6ozs per ton from it. Cornea and party (tributters In another section of the mine) crushed 11 tons for a vield of 55ozs.

Crown : The work of connecting the

new reef with the Company’s Balteiy is almost completed, and a good sized paddock of pay-aide lock is ready t j be sent along the I’ue,

At the Ee'le.y, a drying fnrnrce has teen erected which w 11 he in use in the course of a few days. A great many alterations and additions have been made to the plant, and the Manager hopes to have the raF's in full swing by the end o? next week. The Ci»ssel GolJ Extraction Company being dependant upon the Crown for supplies of ore, are (of course) idle just now.