Shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon the following telegram was posted at the Corner :—" Crushing shapiDg tally up to expectation. Forty two ounces of hard squeezed amalgam from the picked and mineralised stone; also 18ozs 15dwts from three berdans for 12 hours' ran, with good ■how on.the plates. It will take two days more to get the quartz through the battery,—Thos. Kadfobd."

HAZELBANK.
' In-tne course of his weekly report Mr Contts states that the face of the leading gtope on Darby's leader is over where the gold wbs got in the drive. A few pounds of picked stone are obtained every time .the reef is broken down. The leader con tinues to look well going upwards. It averages one foot in thickness. At the battery 37 loads have been crushed up to date for 1650z3 amalgam There are about lOOlbs picked stone on hand. MOANATAIKI. The manager reports that the fort nightly crushing returned 191ozs melted gold from 513 tons of quartz acid gOlbs of picked stone. The workings on the Golden Age reef are looking a little better, es pecially in the western stopes abore the 100 ft level, and also in the eastern drive gn the Point BusseU level.
DEATH.
McOonnejCil.— On July 18th, at the residence, Terrace street, Mary Ann, dearly beloved wife of William McConnell, and youngest daughter of the late James Craig, aged 34 years.
The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1892.
