KARANGAHAKE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4380, 17 January 1883, Page 2

KARANGAHAKE.

(FBOM OUB OWlf COBEESPONDENT.)

The contractor 1* »for the Ifaaraki tram has giren up the contract. It is & great pity that this w.ork has not been finished some time since, as the whole of the district has been kept buck owing to the unnecessary delay. Mr Mac Donald, the new manager of the Hauraki, made a short stay jn *,he district.. Some of the boys say the misquitoes and fleas were too many for him. Some very good stone is coming from the No. 2 reef. In the Noble the main drira is in 190 feet, and the reef prospects payable most of the distance.

In the Diana another leader was met with last week, which gives r fair prospects. ' / % " A contract has been let for driving IC3 ifeet on the reef in the Golden Ceown. sJGood prospects are obtained in several fre'e'fs iri this mine, and gold is showing in th&.face of what is .known as the No. 2 'reefo'- ' " ... , * „; In the Mabtha the reef looks'as well as ever, and* gives good pros fiects: The same; may be said of the' DtPKgo, owned by the same 'shareholders.-' 42 feet has been driven in the lattermine^on the reef which is an average* of 4ft, and shows gold freely, but a lot of work will have to be done to thoroughly open up the reefs in this locality. *nli

A large number of claims are now taken up,-and work i* proceeding on most of them. The country is rough and broken and difficult of,access. The road for which tenders hare been called will giro most of the mines a chuneeLto: forward trial erushing*,,to?th<e Hauraki, Company* , battery'when completed.