MINING.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 167, 22 April 1872, Page 3

MINING.

Moanataiari. —The manager lodged, on *behalf of the company, on Saturday nine hundred and seventy-four ounces of gold, this being the result of the crushing of a parcel of picked stuff, and the plate amalgam obtained during the past six days’ crushing. This makes a total of two thousand five hundred and seventyfour ounces lodged since the last dividend of five shillings per share was declared; and next Saturday, when the usual fortnightly clean up takes place, this quantity will be considerably increased, as the stone still continues to turn out well and richly. The pass down to the Kuranui tunnel is a fine roomy one, being nine feet by three feet, and will be so made that the trucks can be placed underneath, and the stuff put right into them. We perceive that work has not yet been re-com-.net'ced at filling in the machine site on the beach since the Tunnel Company obtained an injunction forbidding them to use the mullock taken from the tunnel

All Nations.— A clean up and retorting took place for this company on Saturday, after a week’s run with 20 head of stampers, during which time nearly four hundred tons of stone were put through. The yield is a good one, being six hundred and seventy-four ounces of retorted gold. Besides general stuff, there was a parcel of specimen stone, but not very much. Sinking the shaft and winze is being carried on, and the lode in the latter is a fine body of stone. Crushing is still going on with twenty head, and will be kept up regularly.

Caledonian. —The return for the week is a very fair one, amounting to nine hundred and fifty ounces of gold. The whole of the stone reduced was treated at the company’s new battery, which is working very well. Una. —The return for the past fortnight is rather a poor one, amounting to eightynine ounces eleven pennyweights and eighteen grains melted gold, from nearly two hundred tons of stone crushed. This was all taken from the upper levels of the ground. The low-level tunnel is now within about fifteen feet of the reef, so that we may soon expect to hear of the lode being in hand at this level, when some excellent returns and consequent dividends are looked for.

Bright Smile. —The clean up for this company took place at Vickery’s machine. After crushing for about sixtoen days with ten head of stampers, during which time some one hundred and fifty tons were put through. The yield obtained was three hundred and thirty-seven ozs. of retorted gold, or at the rate of two and a-quarter ounces to the ton. Tin’s must be considered an excellent rteurn, as some of the stone at the commencement of the crushing was not anything like equal to two ounce stone. The reef on the beach side of the slide, it is that has given such good returns. Crushing will he resumed next week on a large parcel of stone principally from the other side of the mine.

Prince Imperial.-— The gold obtained from the late crushing of seventy tons for this company has been melted into a bar weighing sixty ounces ten pennyweights twelve grains.

Californian Tribute, —The usual fortnightly return of these tributersis to hand and does not show such a large falling off from the previous ones as we had anticipated, being one hundred and thirty-eight ounces eight dwts. nineteen grs. of melted gold of a superior quality. During the fortnight twenty head have been at work, and something over two hundred tons of stuff have been put through. Victory. A small parcel of stone crushed for the Victory claim has given a satisfactory return of eleven ounces thirteen pennywoiglits eighteen grains of melted gold. Grove’s Bank. —The weekly return for the crushing for this claim at Grove’s Battery, Hape Creek, amounts to six ounces throe pennyweights of gold. George Stevenson. —This company arc crushing a parcel of some eighty tons at Greenaway's Battery, on the Hapo Creek. It will not be finished for a day or so, as there are some fifteen tons or so more to go through. A considerable quantity of amalgam is now on hand from the crushing, as far as it has gone, sufficient at least to show that the crushing will be a payable one. Dixon’s No. I.—The manager has now opened on the reef for about seven feet on both sides of the main drive, and reports most satisfactory prospects. On one side the lode has made to about five feet wide, and some nice specimens have been taken out. On the other side it has been a little pinched, hut is making again, and the stone here is also good-looking. He is at present engaged in laying down iron rails in the tunnel, and has stopped work on the reef until this is completed. This claim will now soon be opened up, and from former and present prospects, we hope soon to see it amongst our list of regular gold-producers. Don Pedro. —The reef in this claim, where being driven on towards tho Inverness, has increased in size, and is now’ between eighteen inches and two feet wide, and show’s gold. This looks well for the Inverness, as it is only some twenty feet from the face of the cl rive to the boundry line of the two claims. At the other side, where driven on, the lode is slightly disarranged, but seems to be coming together again, and it looks very well. Inverness. —The reef in the bottom of the winze has been joined by a lode in the footw’all, which seems to go right through it, and runs away again from the hanging •wall. Some very nice gold is visible in the lode as it stands, and some very good was broken out of it on Saturday. The manager is going to open out on the vein from the present bottom of the winze, in order to test the value of the stone. There is a rich, dark vein of quartz running throusrh the lode, which carries nico gold in streaks through it, and the manager says that it is just the sort of stone he likes to sec, as it invariably proves auriferous in that part of the hill. Imperial Crown Tribute. —The tributers who are working the Golden Hill ground are sending down a parcel of some fifteen or tw’enty tons of quartz to the Manukau,to be crushed, which is expected to yield very well.

VOLUNTEEEING. Reception of Southern Representatives. The whole of the Rifle Brigade are requested to fall in at the Volunteer Hall to-day, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of marching to the Grahamstown wharf on the arrival of the Golden Crown from Auckland to meet the Southern representatives, who have so ably upheld the honors of this district in the late Colonial Prizefiring, and we hope that the Volunteers will turn out in good numbers to give their brethren a hearty welcome on their return to-day. The Scottish Company will meet at the Thames School Grounds at 2 o’clock. It is to be regretted that the Naval Brigade and Band cannot attend the reception parade, but they find that they cannot manage it, so that there will be no band at all on parade to-day. In the evening a dinner is to be given to the returning “ heroes,” which takes place at the Pacific Hotel, at 8 p.m., and which we understand will be largely attended by Volunteers and their friends. Below we publish a complete list of all the sets fired for the championship, and the total points made by each man. By this it will be seen that at least three of our men have come out with good averages. Beyond thejeight sets which settle the championship, our men have also done well in the extra matches fired. In firing for the Marksman’s Frize, Volunteer Fenton came off the winner, being tlie onl} 7 man who made 10 hits His score is 2G points at 700 and 800 yards, and considering that he is one of the youngest shots out of t he 58 representatives, he deserves great credit for it. Partington won the first Ladies’ Prize with a score of 27 points, at 150 and 550 yards ; and Payne won fourth prize in the first set, All Comers’Match. In the match North against South, the ten highest aggregates on the Southern side amount to 2,896, and the ten highest Northerners to 2,842, the South thus having 54 the best of it, and they won the match by 19 points. Appended is the resume of the championship firing :

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