A rise is being put up, and as there are on'y some 15 feet to go to the surface, it will be soon proved whether it is the right reef or not. In the face of the crosscut there aro indica tions that another body of'quartz is not very far off. Throughout all the quartz at present broken out from both retfs tho gold seems evenly distributed. The reefs nave a north-east ami south-west strike with a strong underlie to tho eastward. The small reef being tho flattest it will junction with tho second reef a couplo of feet under tho floor of tho drive. Tho country—being so near tho surface - is very much disturbed, and I am of opin ion that within a few feot of the floor it will be found that tho reefs will become much more upright. So' far as I have seen the show is most decidedly a good one, and from the appearance of the ore I think that treatment by tho Oassel process would be tbe best, and more than double the return of bullion by the ordinary wot process,: Mr McMahon is wow -getting a -pwcel tons]

■ ready to send to Thames for treatment There is'one great advantaqo that there will be no*lack of back", fully 200 feet being available. I may state that the , qna v tz 'm mostly bron .i and considerabl} j oxidised and when broken shows patches ; - of blue, mineralised, but no matter what r tho colour may be the gold is there al • tho same. From the foot, of too tips ) road can bo got through Mr H. Rogers , farm and so on to the main road up the , Tapu Greek. The grade would be very , fair, about linl4 or 15. This would be preforabloto junctioniiig with the Fluke road, as the ground would bo better and , most of the.suggested road would run \ through an open country. Mr Hermann Rogers, through whose farm tho re , mainder of the spur runs', holds I lie key i to the hill, as he has taken up the one , man's ground that lay between lu3 pro perty andthe Royal. Sheridan's G.M. 