Mining Review of the Week.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2

Mining Review of the Week.

During the pfst fiw^tflys people have been a little more hopeful, probably, on account df the recent rains, which it is hoped will continue, and keep all the mills on the field employed. The Queen of Beauty is crushing stuff from the Old Golden Calf, the return from which itanxiously looked for. From the size of the lode and the facilities now afforded for working it. lodwts per ton will pay well. Mr Hicks continues to prospect in the Caledonian in a spirited manner, and the general idea is that he will drop across something good. What a sell Te Aroha has beeu. Crushings hare come out, one after the other pruving unpayable—even the favorite mine, the Morning Star, going tp the dogs in an unaccountable manner. Let us hope that Waihi will not prove another Te Aroha. Apropos of our remarks last week concerning the benefits that would accrue from the introduction of a boring machine here, we may mention that the' County Council at its last meeting received a communication from an Irivercargill firm offering to bore at reasonable rates. The Council decided they had not the funds. Our local bodies are now subscribing something like £100 per month to assist pumping operations, and yet they refuse to entertain a proposal that weietl certain would result in much practical good—■ indeed, we consider that the expenditure of that monthly contribution on boring would be far more legitimate than the present use to which it is now put. Let each of our businessmen promise to contribute a small sum, say 2s 6d per month, and our local bodies subsidise any company, willing to test its deep level* by the means referred to, and we feel assured a lasting benefit would result. Our position is becoming worse every day, and the only way to put the brake on our race down hill is to appeal to our deep levels.