The manager reports :•—" Since my last report work has been continued as usual in the mine. Good progress has been made in driving the crosscut to intersect the Bendigo reef. 16 feet has been driven for the week, bat so far we are not quite clear of the numerous quartz veins on the hanging wall of the Carpenter's.. Perhaps it is as well to mention that there is a large inflow of water from these veins that we are passing through, and we expect this water to continue right up to the Bendigo, and ail through it is uncom fortable working. It does not retard working m the least, and we expect this good class of country to continue right up to the Bendigo reef.—S. Howard." WAITEKAURI No. 4 (Waitekaubi.)

The manager reports as follows:— "There has been very little driving done on the cros9 reef. Have started rising on the reef : the reef at this point is 9 inches wide, and gives good payable prospects. I hud two mien prospecting on the Sevan portion of the mine. I ha»e exposed the outcrop.of a reef ; I have cut throtiuh it for 15 feet, The quartz is of a good c^ass, and has all the favorable indications of the gold-bearing reefs in the district. Prom mortar tests I o:n get a litilo gold and cinnabar ; the course of this reef will correspond with the well-known Golden Point reef. There ig another large reef in the Severn drive; which has been driven alongside of, but has not been cut through. I intend doing some work on this; both these reefs are running in a splendid channel of country,"

ILL-TREATING A CHILD.
