TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2455, 5 April 1888, Page 2

TE AROHA.

Tin: Nkw Mixing Company.—With the change of ownership of the battery and other mining property, formerly belonging to Messrs Firth and Clark, at Watorongomai there has a'so been a change of name. The once familiar title of Battery Company has now become defunct, the new proprietary carrying on operations under the less terse but more ambitious style of The Mount Aroha Gold and Silver Mining Company. Work is being pushed vigorously qu h'y. the new company, several uontraota giving employment to a considerable number of miners having lately been let. These works comprise the completion of three low levels previously started in the New Find, Canadian, and Silver King claim?. Winzes to connect the present lower workings with the new levels have also been commenced, and on these a number of wages men arc engaged. It will thus bo seen that operations .ire projected on a large scale for when the works np\y fcykeu in, liqud are completed, such an, amqunt of ground will be opened up as will enable the Company to employ a largely increased number of hands. Work is still going on as before in the upper portions of the New Find mine, and the output of stuff i 3 sufficient to keep the present battery crushing steadily. }t is contemplated to erect a, smelting furnaou at an «arly date, and the sit? has already boon selected, Five 10-ton parcels of ore taken From di/i'eivnt parts of the Company's croiiud will shortly be sent for treatment to the Australian Smelting Company's works at Adelaide, and the result of the trials will, it is believed, be such as to fully justify the belief hold by the new proprietary us to the value of their property.