Harbor View : The lower tunnel of this Company is being pushed forward. Several leaders have been passed showing gold. At 200 feet a cross drive has been put in on a good sized lode which tiiey arc following with favorable-results. The Golcondaare sinking a winze in No. 1 tunnel, ancl getting out some good stone. No. 2 tunnel is being rapidly ex tended to open communication with the winze. About a ton of tailings are being tested at Raithby & Muir’s battery. The Green Harp continue crushing with about the same results. The im pression is that 3 oz. will he the utmost yield. Fanny: This Company had a trial crushing of three hundredweight of quartz at Raithby & Muir’s test machine. Tlie exact result 1 could not ascertain, hut understand it gave a fair average return. Preece’s Point Company : A lot of 4 cvvl. of stone was put through at Raithby & Muir’s last evening, and j'ielded lGctwt. 12grs., or at the rate of 4oz. 2ihvt. 12grs. per ton. The Bismarck finished timbering up slopes to-day, and will at once proceed to sink the winze deeper. It is also the manager’s intention to put another winze down 100 feet nearer the mouth of tun nel to connect with the Siege of Paris. The crushing of 15cwt. of specimens and about half a ton of picked stone was put through the Whakaroa battery yesterday, but the retorting not being finished I am not in a position to say how mail} 7 ounces of gold it has yielded. One cake of gold weighed about 4600 z., and another was just being put on as I left. It is under stood that the result can hardly he known until Monday, as the tailings are going through the berdans.
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