KURANUI HILL UNITED.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2507, 18 January 1877, Page 3

KURANUI HILL UNITED.

Mr J. W. Walker, the manager of this mine, is about to let some thirty blocks on tribute, all at the rate of 20 per cent. These sections are chiefly in the old Poverty and Charleston, Belfast, and Kelly's mines, and nearly all of them, are in such good order that no time will need to be wasted in repairs, etc., when the tributers have entered into possession, and in most of them gold has been taken out in payable quantities at one time or another. In one of the blocks in the Belfast section which the manager intended to work on tribute, a nice parcel of specimens amounting to some eight or lOlbs were uncovered a day or two back, and the manager has decided to work the leader for the company for a few "days to see what it is like. The leader is about five inches through and is composed of burnt-looking quartz, the gold being very fine. The manager has also a party of men driving from the All Nations section towards Kelly's. The drive starts'from the Euranui Tunnel, and is now in over 200 feet, there being some thirty feet yet to go. There are some 20 men working for the company, and they are able to take out sufficient stuff to keep twenty head going at the battery. Besides the 20 head going for the company, the tributers have the other 20, and if the company's* stuff proves payablo, with such a large number of tributers working, and with the help of a few public crushings, there appears little doubt but that the battery can be kept continuously going. The battery is in Tery good order, and lately some great improvements have been devised by which the facilities for crushing are greatly increased. . Amongst these there may be mentioned the laying on of the Government Water Supply, and the construction of a tramway connecting the Poverty and Charleston, Kelly's and other sections to the southward with the battery. In order to give the new tributers every chance, they will be allowed to have trials at the battery, and if they are unpayable they will not have to entirely bear the expenBes, In another report the sections at present being worked will be referred to.