OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2196, 5 August 1886, Page 3

OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

KarangahakePaeroa, Wednesday. WoostocK. — Nothing much to report. Everything in apple pie ordor and ready to start so soon as the fates decree LKAMiNoroN.— The manager reports that ho struck a slide last week. He imagined ho had pot the reef that he is drivinsr for but finds it worthless. The reef should bo in hand about Wednesday. It is supposed to be identic.il with the Kenilworth reef. Called Back.— (Late Albion) Webb And Co., have got abwut 7 tone, which is now being operated on at the I van hoe Battery. A return of about 2oz to the ton is expected. Ko.sk. — The parcel of 21 tons crushed last week produced a most unsatisfactory return j only about 2oz to tho ton. The quartz from this mine is very deceiving ; strong colours are very frequent and to look at the quartz one would imagine it to be worth considerably more than it has turned out to be. The manager is working on No 2 leader, winning qu.wta of about the same stamp as the last lot. Sutko. — Work in the low level is progressing extremely slowly, the country being very hard and explosives being constantly required. Driving to intersect the winze, which is about 10 feet distant, over 100 feet having already been driven. Okowx.— Although only one man is at present employed on tins ground, shareholders need not be afraid. The manager has decided not to do any more mine work untd such time as the new battery starts. The mine has already produced several hundred tons quartz of good quality, which remains fun reduced, and which would be wasted by the old battery process, j Adeline. — This claim has declared a fid dividend, the first I believe since the Sir Walter Scott dividend of 18 months ago. Coming events cast their shadows before, and it is fondly to be hoped that this dividend is the first of many. A good working balance is in hand and about 9 tons picked stuff, worth £100 per ton is yet in the manager's hands. It is quite on the oards that yet another new ore reducing process is to make its debut within this gold field shortly. I allude to the prucess known as lixifioation which is really and merely the humid assay increased in bulk ad infinition. Messrs Montgomery, M.A., of the School of Mines, Thames, Heightpn and G. W. Bull are engaged upon the process, their experiments being well nigh finished. Instead of the expensive "Aqua regia " (muriatic Milphnric acids) being used, a solution of sulphide of lime and other chemical substances will be used, which after the process may be rendered capable of being used again and again by being acted' u^pon by re- agents.

Waihi. The Silverton reef appears to be growing larger and larger as worked southward, but unfortunately alw poorer and poorer, The atone is being picked out, and only the better portion ib reserved for treatment. There is nothing fresh to report from the other mines. Good steady work is being done in the Martha and Union.

General News. At a meeting of the library committee on Saturday evening last, it was decided to erect a suitable building for the u«o of the library, it having now grown too large for its present habitation. The Paeroa, "Public Hall has been leased by a local resident for a term of one year. A case has arisen out of the late St. Patrick's Day r.ices between the Ohinemuii jockey Club and a Thames horseowner, who .states that his horse was second, and that the first horse was disqualified. Lwvyov-5 ha\e been retained, and there is likely to be a big fight. Regret is expressed both in Ohinemnri and at To Aroha at the failure of the petition for separation of the Piako and Ohinetnuri Counties from the Thames Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The Thames people receive over £150 per annum from Ohinemuri, with the Government subsidy, and scarcely £•"> has been received back during the last two years. Further notion is to be taken. It is stated on good authority that tpndoM are to be called shortly for the Hikutti.vPaeroa section of the Te Aroha-Giaham-«town railway.