COROMANDEL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 189, 17 May 1872, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

At the New Zealand Company’s Beach Battery, yesterday, Mr Verran got up steam ‘and worked the machinery for some hours under low pressure steam (501bs) for the boiler in use, in order to gradually season and tighten all the steam joints preparatory to the final start to-day. We believe Messrs Masefield and Company were to have delivered the bed plates and stamper shoes, twenty in number, last week, but they had not arrived last evening, and unless they are forwarded to-day the battery will be obliged to wait until the ironfounders send them. The machinery worked, in engineering phrase, “as smooth as oil,” proving the o-reat accuracy and care with which the work has been erected in so short a space of time. The Bismarck winze is now down about sixteen feet, and there is still gold at the bottom of it, but the men have been busy timbering for the last two days, and not much stone has been broken out. At a meeting of directors held yesterday it was determined to go on sinking the winze,

and to put in a lower drive. The Green Harp are beginning to convey their general stuff to a large paddock just behind the Beach Battery, so that it may be put through early next week. Every one is now anxiously waiting foi the crushing. The Royal Oak, next the Tokatea, took out from the lower level on Monday and Tuesday some very nice specimens. The Nil Desperandum are still driving. Had a crushing lately of 15 tons, which showed a result of 13J ozs.—Coromandel Mail.