PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
In forwarding to us a copy of the Rules of the Sociedad Beneficente Portugueza de Hong- kong, Mr. Loureiro, the Hon. Secretary, writes
The aim of the Society is to accord mutual assistance to its members, male Portuguese re- sidents only being admitted to membership.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
will have to be started at once to work this leader formation, as the air is very bad and the ground is that hot that coolies cannot work in it.
Taking this end of the mine all round the prospects are very good, some of the leaders being very rich the lode in the face has also greatly improved in appearance. In the face of the level going south prospects are not so good as they were. The lode formation has Its head office will be in Hongkong, and the changed to almost all mullock-slate with oc general management of the Society will be casional quartz leaders through it. There is entrusted to a General Committee to be elected also a small body of quartz on the footwall about annually at the General Meeting with a Sub-12 in. wide, which carries nice gold. This is Committee also to be appointed thereof, which separated from the footwall by as oft flucan, the will have under its special control the financial footwall itself being clean and well defined. I affairs of the Society.
think the main ore body has gone to the east of the present drive, which is only 6 ft. wide. After driving further if the lode does not make again I will put in a cross-cut east to test the ground, as I think this will prove to be the same as in the No. 2 level in which next to the footwall was all mullock with ore body farther to the east.
In the leading stope coming in over this level the lode is about 11 ft. wide and carries good gold all through.
The Society will help the members when sick or temporarily unfit for work.
It will also contribute towards their funeral expenses, and lend a helping hand to members the various vicissitudes of life, supporting them in any reasonable undertakings and in any justifiable law suits, according to its means, as well as looking for work for the unemployed
ones.
The chief aim of the Society is to infuse in
I have started a second stope from the No. 2 air shaft about 400 ft. back from the face of the spirit of the members the love of their own country, and to establish a firm union amongst the leading stope. The lode is here about 12 its members in any endeavour or proposal of a
ft. wide and carries good gold all through. legal character which the Society may resolve The two stopes between the Nos. 1 and 2 air to carry on, on behalf of the Portuguese Com-shafts have broken through into the old native The munity in the Colony.
workings about 75 ft. from surface. natives have worked a part of the lode to this depth, but have left about 8 ft. to 10 ft. of the lode standing; this I suppose proved too hard The following is the Manager's report for for them to work with their appliances. This the six weeks ended June 18th :-
RAUB GOLD MINING CO.
Raub Hole.-No. 2 shaft, No. 2 level. The main drive going South is now in 435 ft. from crosscut, we have not yet cnt the main ore chute in this drive. It is evident that the fault met with about 50 ft. back in this level has either thrown the ore chute further south from its course or cut it off altogether. I have stopped this drive for the present till the stopes are brought up to the face, and if the ore chute is found to continue the drive can be continued. In the meantime, I have started to crosscut both east and west to see if anything exists in either direction.
In the stopes over the back of this level, I have opened one stope north from the No. 2 winze about 12 ft. above the back of the main drive. The lode here is about 1 ft. wide, and 'carries very fair gold.
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On the opposite side of the winze going south, the top stope is fairly into the ore chute, which is about 15 in. wide, and carries very good gold. The two stopes below this to the back of the main level are not good, the lode being 6 in. to 8 in. wide and not showing much gold. There are about 40ft. of backs over the top stopes to the in- termediate drive; all good grade ore in the stopes above the intermediate drive, the gold is continning above the usual run of the ore chute; should this continue it will give a good deal more ground to work in these stopes than was expected.
In the main level going north there is no change to report, the lode formation is about 4-in. wide but carries no gold; this level has now been driven 228ft. without change. I intend to continue it back to the No. I shaft about 190ft. further with the hope of cutting another chute of gold there.
The crosscut going in west is now in 24ft. from the shaft: for the last 10ft. we have a small but very rich leader going in with the drive. This is of importance, as it proves that the rich leader formation got in the old original workings of the Raub hole continues to this depth. This makes the second gold bearing lesder cut in this drive which is now right under the old original workings. The country is a nice black slate: we out heavy water in this drive, which stopped all work in the bottom workings for about a week. The water has now eased off considerably, and the pump can keep it out without difficulty.
Bukit Koman.No. 1 level North. In the face of the drive the lode will average 10ft. wide besides the leader formation to the West. I cannot say how wide it is, but we are working -it about 20ft wide further back, this makes about 30ft, of crushing stuff. A fresh air shaft
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ore carries a very fair gold but is not so good as the part they have worked which carried exceedingly rich ore.
This may make the next clean-up not quite so but there good as the last general clean-up was, is a very large area of very good ore south of the No. 2 air shaft as yet untouched, which will take years to work out.
No. 2 Lerel. This level is now opened up for about 300ft. from face to face of the drives, and both faces have improved since my last report.
The lode in the face going north is now 11ft. wide and appears to be making wider, with well defined walls, and very nice gold can be seen all across the face.
In the face going south the mullock which we had on the foot-wall side of the lode has cut out and quartz taken its place, the whole width of the lode, 12 ft., is now being sent to the mill for crushing. Fair gold can be seen all through the lode. The winze being sank to connect the Nos, 1 and 2 levels is now down over 50 ft. and carries good gold all the way down. The whole of the winze is being sunk on the foot wall side of the lode; how wide the lode is I cannot say. We have still over 40 ft. to sink to break through to the level below.
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Bukit Jallis Besar.-I have much pleasure in being able to report a very great improve- ment in prospects of this section since my last report. At that date I was driving on the lode first cut into the cross-cut west from the shaft, 118 ft. had then been driven south on the course of the lode which varied a good deal, from 1 ft. to 5ft. wide in places carrying fair gold. Not being satisfied that I was on the true lode, on my departure for Singapore
the gold from with
clean up, I gave orders to start a cross-cut west from the end of the drive on No. 1 lode, and to continue it until something was cut. After driving 42 ft. west No. 2 lode was with carrying very fair gold. Going south it was about 3 ft. wide and north 2 ft. widet About 30 ft. has been driven south on a lode 4 ft. to 5 ft. wide carrying good payable gold all the way. About 20 ft. has been driven north, the lode is about 23 ft. wide and carries payable gold, but is hardly so good as the south drive.
me.
There is still good gold showing in both faces This lode is now proved to be payable for 50 feet with every prospect of continuing indefinitely. I think there is little
doubt that this is the same line as Bukit Koman, as the native workings can be traced the whole distance, about 730 yards. I have little doubt that this section will eventually prove to be a second Bukit Koman` when properly opened up. I will at once make
[July 7, 1897.
the necessary surveys of the underground work- ings so as to locate site a for a permanent engine shaft. Powerful pumping machinery will be required, as the water is already heavy for the shallow depth of our present shaft, 73 ft.
Bukit Hitam-The prospecting shaft being sunk here is down and timbered 481 ft. Water is getting troublesome, so I intend putting on three shifts to try and get it down the depth required, 80ft., before cross-cutting for the lode Western Lode. The drive going in south on the lode at 219 ft.-No. 3 level-is now in 130 ft. from the crosscut, the whole face of the drive being in quartz, but no gold can be got I have stopped driving and in the stone. started to crosscut both east and west to ascertain the width of the lode.
Battery. Since the last general clean-up, the battery has been kept steadily at work, full time. In the 7th inst. a rongh clean-up took place, 1,404 tons giving a yield of 2,782 ozs. 10 dwts. o grs. of amalgam. Crushing was re- sumed the same day at 6 p.m. and has continued steadily since.
General.-There has been a good deal of sick- ness of late in the camp. Two of the European staff have bad to leave from this cause. attribute it to the continuous wet weather we are having.
WM. BIBBY,
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.]
THE NEW SANITARY BY-LAW.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PREJI.
SIR,-With reference to the proposed new Sanitary by-law published in your issue of 29th ultimo, it is with pleasure that I note the new departure of laying a proposed by-law on the table of the Council before bringing it up for reading and thus giving those interested an opportunity of expressing their views in public.
This by-law lays down that no street on any lot shall be obstructed by the erection of any structure or object of any kind, whether temporary or permanent, which may in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer appointed by the Board be pre- judicial to the health of the inmates, under a penalty of $25.
It then says in the event of permission being refused appeal may be had to the Magistrate.
Now to understand the full force and mean- ing of this by-law it is necessary to quote the definition of the word Street under the Ordin- ance, which reads as follows:-" Any square, court or alley, highway, lane, road, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not."
means
From this it will be seen that Street a great deal more than the word conveys to most people, and in fact that no owner of property will be able to add to or extend a building, or build on parts of his lot at present unbuilt upon, or pull down and rebuild on his lot, nor even put out a sunshade either temporary or permanent, without obtain- ing the permission of the Medical Officer of Health.
There is no permit required for building in the colony at present, nor should such be re- quired. All that is necessary is that the build. ing should conform to certain definite laws. Why, then, should not the Board pass a definite by-law laying down clearly what distance at the front and back of buildings of say, one, two, or three stories in height shall be left unobstructed, instead of trying to pass such au absurd, vague, and arbitrary by-law as the one proposed, which would vary with the opinion of each and every Health Officer or other officer that may be appointed, so that there would be no certainty; and what one Health Officer might approve another would disapprove.
You might as well pass a law saying that if any one does anything which in the opinion of the Attorney-General is illegal he shall be fined $25. And, further, the by-law places the final decision with the Magistrate on a purely hygienio poiut.
Before a man buys a property, he wants to know clearly what he can legally do with it
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