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January 31, 1895.]
RAUB
The following is the mining manager's report for five weeks ending 10th January, 1895
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
and 8 hours during the past nine weeks. No bumpy ones from Watson, was as good as any less than 22 of our working bullocks, have died' during that time. It is evident that unless this season at a pinch. The rest of the innings of the several which have been played by him some better system of transporting the ore Raub Hole Section. No. 1 Level Main Engine from the different mines to the battery is adopted,
can be briefly described, and consisted mainly of Shaft.—The only work going on in this level is it will be impossible to extend our operations length trundling by Mast, the pair proving too some clever bowling by Firth and some good working two of the small cross lenders which or even kop the present will fully employed. much altogether for the remaining batsmen. show a little gold and working á bunch of ora I have on the necessary steps to have a over the main drive in the north end. This lat-survey and trace made immediately of a light beaten by the P. and O. man, whilst Morcom Thresher and Shelford were both completely ter appears to be an offshoot from the main ore railway as far as Bukit Koman, so as to save shoot. It carries fair gold, but I don't think it time. On the 7th inst. a general clean up of Knox, of the Rifles, who has soon picked up tha
and Elliott put up two simple ones off Mast... is of much extent. In the intermediate level the battery took place. 1,210 tons (estimated) secret of playing forward on Hongkong wickets, between the No. 1 north and No. 1 south winz-s giving a return of 2.319 oz. amalgam, which there is still a good extent of payable ore to work, yielded 897 oz. 4 dwts. smelted gold, being, an
was the only oue to make a stand and contributed but at present there is too much water coming average of 13 dwts. 8 grs. per ton. The follow-point by Mast got rid of Sergt. Turner and a ball an easily made 19. A pretty left hand catch at through the old native workings to allow us to ing are the proportions crushed from the differ or two after Firth bowled the "Pink Un." After work it.
As soon as the weather clears up we ent mines:-Bukit Koman 550 tons. Raub Hole 3 wickets for 79, 10 wickets for 109 was disap- shall be able to resume work here in No. 2 level. 400 and West Lode 260, total 1.210 tons. Crush-pointing. The Club fi Iding was good, but all
No. 2 Level In the main drive going southing was resumed again on the 9th inst.
the credit rests with Firth and Mast, especially good progress is being made. The lode forma-
with Firth, who kept up his end throughout, judi- tion is abont 4" wide, but carries no gold. A
clously varying his pace and pitch, number of small cross leaders have been cut, some of them carrying good gold. It is my iu- tention to continue this leve! south until it meets the north drive from the No. 2 south engine
shaft.
General. During the past five weeks the weather has ben wet and stormy, which has played sad havoc amongst the working bullocks, no less than 22 having died during the last two months and the rest of the old ones are little better than walking skeletons and are unfit for work. The result is the mill has only be able N. 2 South Eugine Shaft.-The main drive to work a little over half time, and it is at the 120 feet level has been extended 46 feet, with the greatest difficulty that the different making the total length 191 feet, 91 feet north pumping engines have been kept going, owing and 100 feet south from the crosscut. The lode to the difficulty of getting firewood in from in the face of the north level has improved and the jungle to them as all the jungle roads is now 8" wide in the bottom and 3” in the top of are almost impassable. Having to use green the level. It has the appearance of a new make and wet wood causes about twice as much to be of stone going down; this we shall be able to burned as we should if it had a reasonable time prore in our next sink. There has been no stop-to dry. I cannot too strongly urge on the ing deue north of the X, cut, so that there is a directors the necessity of at once pushing on the large extent of the main ore shoot to stope yet. construction of a railway, so as to have it com- In the face of the level going south the lnde still plated before the next north-east monsoon sets continues to look well; there is 2 feet of ore in, and avoid a repetition of what we are now carrying good gold. As the mean ore shoot goes experiencing, goath it appears to make more extensive and maintains its richness. Al og
the bottom of this level for 160 feet we have a strong body of ore carrying good gold slite distance and with good gold still showing in the face of the drive. This looks well for our netx level. Over the back of this level there are three stopes at work on good payable ore. The lode averages from 1 to 2 feet thick, and there is now a face 70 feet high of good payable ore opened. As soon as the pump ironwork arrives from Singapore I shall at once com- meuce to sink the shaft another 70 feet.
Bukit Koman.-The principle work carried on in this section has been stoping over the back of the main drive at the No. 1 air shaft. The lode still continues as large as ever. 2 to 20 feet wide, and carries fair gold the whole width. A month's work makes very little impression on a great lode like this. The ground Las been giving us some trouble to secure, owing to the water finding its way from the surface throngh the old native workings. The main drive going south is still in hard blasting ground. The country in the face is very broken, consisting of quartz and diorite, but shows no gold.
Leader Formation in Shaft-A wiuz has been sunk from where we opened out up the shaft and connected with drive going south from plat on the east side of the shaft, Gold can be found in the leaders right to the bottom of the winze; in fact, some good specimen stone is oc- casionally met with, but the formation is very irregular. The ground is very hard blasting ground, which makes it very slow and costly to explore; still the formation appears extensive and may lead to something good. Very little work has been done in the surface, workings, owing to the continuous wet weather we are having. This is also causing a lot of extra water in the mines and is giving the present pump all it can do to keep the mine free from water. A large pump capable of raising 30.000 gallons of water per hour has been ordered to re- place the one now in the shaft.
Westeru Lode.-Stoping north and south is being carried on from the No 1 north winze. The lode varies from 6 inches to 2 feet in thick ness and fair gold can bogen in breaking the ore all along the lode, which is now open for a distance of over 200 ft, with over 70 ft. of backs still to slope. As we rise on the lode it will get wider The contiunons wet weather is giving us some trouble when taking out the ground, as owing to its soft nature it causes it to run and becomes heavy on the timber.
Battery-Owing to the continuous wet wea- ther and the difficulty of carting quartz to the battery, it has only been able to work 33 days
WM BIBBY.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. LONG RANGE CUP AND SPOONS. A strong breeze and a bright sun were not conducive to high scoring on Saturday after members. The Cup was won by Capt. Palmer noon, although there was a fair attendance of and the Spoonsby Messrs. Rosevere, Stewart, and Staveley. The following are the best scores:- 800 900 H'cap Grand yds. yds. points. total. *[1]. 1-35
83 73 73 73
Capt. Palmer, O.S.D. Mr. Roserere, R.N. Mr. W. Stewart..
88858
86 29
21 30 12 26 1/
21 21 20 23 26
65
04
Lt. C. B. Staveley, R.B. 35 Mr. W. M. Deas Sapper Pritchard
ORICKET.
H.K.O.C. V. NAVY AND ARMY.
Cedant arma toga, The above important fixture, played on Fri- decessors decided on the first innings at a point day and Saturday last, was like most of its pre- beyond which if the game had been continued an interesting contest would have resulted; For though the Club gained a lead of 100 runs in the first innings, the United Services made such thoroughly good us of their second batting. venture as "to by 120 runs on with ouly three wickets down. Had the game been fought out the other side would probably have had to raise 250 runs to ensure viet ry.
Both sides suffered from absenteeism, the Club being the worse affected, in this respect. Winning the toss. Sergt. Burton and Garde faced Watson and Firth. The two opening batsmen made a bad start, as the Serreant was most palpably. J. b w. to Firth and Garde scooped a ball into Inch- bald's hunds at leg. This made 2 for 6. But the arrival of Campbell and Reade changed the complexion of affairs: the juncture was critical and steady play was the only sound play. This policy both batsmon adopted with great success, taking no liberties till Ellis bowled when a 7 and 5 to leg rather excited them and led to some sharp runing, which resulted in Campbell being run out fi a brilliant throw in by a coolie, The partnership had produced 73 runs. Thiesher sncceedd, but imm diat dy lost the Surgeon- Major, who was held at mid on off Mast, who had taken up the bowling a short time before. Reade's rans were made in his now well known cautious and effective manner and his innings, save for a few lucky snicks to leg off Firth and an undoubted anxiety not to be hit by
Club went in with Smith and Inchbild. The start A quarter of an hour remained for play when the was as disastrous as that made by the other side, for Smith inexcusably ran himself ont and Inch- bald unintentionally entrusted one to the wicket keeper. Time was played out by Lammert and Sheldon, the former having three 4's to his credit at the time of drawing stamps. Upon resu ning at 11.15 on Saturday morning Sheldon played the best part of an over in good forward style, but in indulging in a pet stroke got his bat across, etc. etc. This was 3 for 13! Lammert was next joined by Firth and a reassuring stand resulted. The former played far better than usual; his bat was kept straight. his drives were along the ground, aud ho a oided balls outside his off stump. bowling, proved the mainstay of his side: he Firth. now in batting as before in kept a strict watch over every balk, cutting any thing that required such treatment, gliding to leg when the chance came, or driving as oppor- tuuity offered, with au occasional dog" stroke put in to show his many sidedness, Elliott suc- ceeded in separating the two, sending back Lam- mert for 31. To him succeeded. Darby, whose stay was short, as ho dragged a ball from Lee Maitland then joined Firth and helped to add on to the sticks in attempting to cut. F. over 40 runs before he was run out just at the hour for tiffia after a spell of free batting. At this time Firth was not ont 70 and met with á hearty reception. After lanch his partnered Firth and another 40 runs was scored before Firth was out, in exactly the same manner as Darby was, ie, by making a mis-bit in cutting and drawing the ball on to the wicket. His 83 was a chanceless innings and everyone repined because this stanuch cricketer did not get the century.
Mast filled the vacant place and played with perfect abandon. He took, liberties with the bowling which were refre bingly daring, but which would have been dangerous ordinarily; however, his eye seemed unusually clear and his rapidly hit score of 34 fully justified his tactics, Garde, having been preceded into retirement by He was finally smartly stumped by the vigilant Ellis, who played a careful game and did all he could to help Firth to his 100: an 8 off a long hop was a noticeable feature of his batting. As the Club had to bat one man short. Watson got left, with only threo to is credit. There was no fault to find with the fielding, Thresher in the country and Garde with the gloves more than acting up to their reputation. There was a lack of bowling in the United Services' team, which became apparent during the several stands that took place.
With a deficit of 100. runs the Navy and Army batted a second time with great success.
Knox was run out at once and Sergt. Burton, after some free hitting, was safely held in the long field by the coolie. Now it was that Campbell and Garde got together with the score at 27, which was carried to 175 or about 150 on, before they were parted. Both men gained entire mastery over the Club bowling, in which eight members of the team shared, the separation being effected by Darby, who bowled the R.N. for a meri- torious 75, compiled mainly by leg play and drives. After being joined by Thresher, the H.KR. bat kept on the even tenour of his way and at the time of drawing stumps had: booked a not out 80. Thresher being not out 24, and the total 222 for 3 wickets! But for a very simple catch which Smith surprisingly dropped Campbell's display was stainless and by his two innings he confirms the expectations which his opening match here led knowing ones