MINING.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 19 June 1895, Page 2

MINING.

A- Meeting of the directors of tlie United , Talisman) and New Bonanza ‘Companies was hold;oh Friday fat* the purpose of appointing a mine manager, The position’ ia an important one, and there were ten ’ applications for it. choice pf ,the directors, however, lay between Mr Wm. Goldsworthy; formerly a well-known mine manager at the Thames and To Aroha, and Mr Bowler, the present manager of tlie New Bonanza. The votes went in favour of Mr Goldsworthy, and he received-the appointment, : .

A telegram from Coromandel states that the Bunker’s Hill claim was floated in two hours with a capital of £15,000, It adjoins the Mauralti Co, on the noi'th, and is tie best mine as far as position goes in the district- The shares alloted here, wore applied for twice oter. The Hauraki leader runs through the whole width of the mine. Thd reef has ;beeri driven on . well lip to; - the ;3uhker’s Hill boundary, and is to carry good gold; Application has heen made for a special claim ofl 00 acre at Puhipuhi The application is made by the British Gold "and Silver . Mining Company; which intends to commence operations vigorously immediately on the .claim being granted. A licensed holding has also been applied for at Puhipuhi. Prospecting work is still being continued at To Puke (says tlie ‘Bay of Plenty Times’), band good-looking stone has .been found. A quantity, neaily three-quarters of a ton, has been sent, we understand, to the Thames for crushing, but so far it has not been treated. 1 Stone has been found yielding small quantities of gold to the blow pipe test, but the matter wants to be gone into more thoroughly than at present if the field is to be fairly prospected.