The Gabriels Gaily Co. has now got it 3 rise up 25 feet. For the first 20 feet the reef was about 8 feet thick ; at 25 feet it narrows to about 3 feet. The manager expects to get a stope of over 40 feet to work on at this point. ■At the south end of the main drive, where a cross-course came in and the reef was lost, the Company has continued driving and prospecting; and has now struck what appears to be the o'.d inundic seam on the foofcwall. It carries gold, and there are several leaders opened out trend into it. The minager has every confidence that the reef will again make in this direction ; but in view of the large body of stone already opened out, the Company has ceased prospect ing for the preßeufi. We undersland the machinery at Dunedin ia now nearly completed, and will be sent up as soon as ever the timber for the framework reaches the machine site. To show how the severe weather Has delayed the operations of the Company, we may state that the greater part of the timber for the bat tery was cut before the 14th June last, and has since that date been lying, at Tapanui ; it is ex pected to be delivered at the end pf this week. The stamp heads have already arrived pa the

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TUAPEKA MINING ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the Tuapeka Mining Association was held in the schoolroom, Blue Spur, on the 3rd instant.
