COROMANDEL.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3882, 8 June 1881, Page 2

COROMANDEL.

Success.—The ground is getting easier and the usual patch of loose gold has been struck. We hare not heard the acidunt taken out, bat as the manager would not leave the face to telegraph the news to Auckland, sending a special messenger instead, there is reason to suppose it is a good quantity.- A copy of the telegram, sent to town on Thursday morning with information of the find was not posted up, some Auckland people are thus kept. better informed on the working of this mine than the Coromandel shareholders.

Tiebnan's last' week broke down some stone in the rise from the tunnel showing coarse gold. i r - -V. H

Tokatea.—No. 7 level has; advanced 26 feet for the week through good driving country. The contractors expect to reach the boundary in ten weeks.

Eoyal Oak.—McNeill's tribute party have opened the old drive on the road level, and are now working on No 2 reef with good prospects. Kelso and Wilson are preparing for a crushing. Bismabck.—Work now being done is chiefly of a preparatory character., For a week past there has been a considerable stream of water into the rise, and during the last two days the flow was so grgat as to stop all work in 'it. The water is now about drained in the intermediate level, and as soon as things are squared up active stoping operations will be commenced. The low level is being pushed rapidly ahead, and as there are yet two, hundred feet of the reef to work on before reaching the boundary the manager- is sanguine of getting something good for the shareholders. The County Council have commenced the necessary repairs to the tramway, whioh will be completed in about a fortnight. As soon, as it is in working order Mr Dobaon will forward crushing stuff to the battery, as he has already a hopper full of quartz. . .. , Peidb of Tokatba. —Kennedy and Macdonald, tributers, have a parcel of stuff at the Corby battery. The laittet" was stopped for want of water. Crushing was to have been commenced at the beginning of this week.

Keep It Dark (McNeill's), on the Kennedy Bay side of the Tokatea range, are getting a good show of specimens and. a lot of crushing dirt, which is expected to shape well at the mill.