Ohinemuri Goldfleld.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4622, 27 October 1883, Page 2

Ohinemuri Goldfleld.

(FBOM OT7E OWN COBBESPONDENT) .

Paeeoa, Yesterday.

Hattbaki G-.M. Co.—The shot of gold met with in driving the low level crosscut is widening out and becoming stronger as it descends beneath the floor of the level, and the manager intends sinking a winze upon it as soon as a chamber has been out sufficiently large to admit of such work being carried on. At this point the lode has now been cut into for a distance of 7 feet, and as yet, there is no sign of the hangingwall. The gold here is not confined to any particular portion of reef, but is diffused throughout the whole | body of the stone, of which a fair proportion shows gold, freely. In the Excelsior section of this company's mine work has been started upon a lode which yields about 2 feet of crushing dirt. It is partly composed of solid stone and partly of decomposed quartz, intermixed with sandstone, gold permeating the whole mass, which, judging from the prospects obtainable therefrom, ought to yield a handsome battery return. The battery is going one shift upon the corn* pany's stuff, which is showing up for a remunerative return. j Ivanhoe G.M. Co.—The country in the low level tunnel improves as work is advanced towards the .reef, which the manager hopes to have in hand about the end of ensuing week. The contractor for building the hoppers completed his work some time since, and the tramway connecting th's comj^aoy'e mine with f.".ie

ri aura Id tso's battery is now fast approaching completion. Mr Alfred Shepherd, late of Waitekauri, has started to build an hotel on the Battery Flat It wiil contain 13 roomsj and will be furnished with all the etceteras of civilised life.