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depth of 328 feet, leaving 27 feet yet to be sunk in order to open out at the required depths.
Queen Prospecting Shaft--Driving north and south in lode channel, country highly mineral- ised; have driven north 21 feet, south 13 feet; *nothing payable met with.
Now Balmoral Mine-Nothing of importance to report. One party of tributors in fair gold, all the others have stopped work.
Battery-The contractor, after working a few days, decided to abandon the contract and forfeit his deposit, for the price was much too low. The next tender has been accepted and work has been resumed. The price is very reasonable, bnt a good party of men have taken the job snå no doubt they will carry it out satisfactorily.
OLIVERS FREEHOLD MINES,
LIMITED.
The General Managers, Messrs. John D Humphreys & Sou, have received the following report from their mining manager by steamer Menmuir :-
Mount Macdonald, 9th November, 1897. I have the honour to report that work in connection with the above mines is progressing satisfactorily.
Eureka Mine.-Main shaft sunk 84 feet be- low 200 feet level, securely timbered and divided 72 feet below said level. Water during past fortnight has been heavier than usual, owing to a floor having been cut in sinking, but it is easing off again.
Mining Tenement 18.-Drive from shaft on this portion extended 20 feet in promising look ing country.
G. I. 105.-Continuing underlay shaft on reef of usual grade and size. Have a large quantity of stone ready to send to battery.
Freehold Battery. Good progress is being made with the erection of new battery and we expect to start crushing in two or three days.
RAUB,
The following is the Acting Mining Man. ager's Report for the four weeks ending on 18th November, 1897.
Raub Hole 220 feet Lavel. The main west crosscnt has been extended 45 feet during the month making a total distance from the shaft of 378 feet. We have passed through several small leaders and bunches of quartz, none of which appear to curry, gold. These of course can be further tested at any future time:
The Drive North on the lode formation has
been extended 18 feet making the total distance from the crosscut 266 feet. The ore in the face continues small being ouly about 4 inches and no gold can be seen in it.
Stopes. In the stopes going south from the No. 2 winzo the ore chute is about worked out to the intermediate. level, the ore still to be worked being only a few inches thick and of low grade. In the stopes going north from the winze the lode will average 15 in. thick and carries good gold. This stope is also about worked out to the Intermediate level.
Bukit Koman 140 ft. level. North Drive.— The lode in the face has increased in size, being now about 7 ft. thick. It is, however, very much jumbled up and mixed with mullock but carries good gold. This and of the mine at present looks better than it has for over the last 12 months. The drive has been extended 34 ft., making the total distance from the crosscut 552 ft.
West Leader.-This still continues to carry fair gold and turns out a considerable amount of crashing stuff. I have opened out west and driven 10 ft, on another bunch of ore. It is about 2 ft. thick and carries fair gold.
Winze No. 1 North.-This is now sunk a total depth of 28 ft., all the way in solid ore, some of which carries very good gold. I do not know the size of the lode but the winze, which is 6 ft. by 4 ft., is in solid ore all the way down. South Drive. I am very pleased to state, as I anticipated in my last report, that the lode has made again in the soft country. It is still small, being only 15 in. thick but appears to be making larger as we drive on it.
As yet no gold has been seen in it, but it is heavily mineralized, which in this mine is a favourable indication. The lode made on the footwall (west) side of the drive and is nice solid stone.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
This drive has been extended 30 ft. making the total distance from the crossout 738 ft.
Prospecting Crosscut East has been extended 15 ft. making the total distance 83 ft. This drive is still in quartz leaders and nice soft country. I have stopped this for the present as I want the minera to push on the Sonth drive where the lode has made again. I have driven 12 ft. south on the ore cut in this crosscut. The ore still continues in the face but is very small. I have stopped this also for the present. West Crosscut.-I have started to crosscut west from the south end main level. We are now in 12ft. and have cut a small bunch of ore about 12in. thick. I will extend this a few
feet further and, should we not cut anything, stop it.
No. 4 Air Shaft.-This has holed through to the No. 1 leading stope at a total depth of 170 ft. from the surface, But breaking through into the stopes we passed through the lode which is about 12 ft. thick of solid ore carrying nice gold. This will enable us to resume work in the No. 1 stope which we will now be able to work to advantage.
No. 2 Stopa.--The lode has increased in size and is now about 12 ft. wide of solid ore which carries fair gold.
No. 3 Stope. The lode still continues about 7 in. wide of nice solid ore in which good gold can be freely seen. The lode ought to get larger as we go south on it.
No. 4 Stopu.-There is no change here; the lode continues about 5 in, wide of fairly good
ore.
As we are now about in to some very bad ground where we had a run last year, we will not be able to extend this stope at present bat come back and take another stops off before attempting to stope the bad ground.
No. 2 Level South Drive-There is no change whatever in this drive; the lode still continues about 12in. wide. The drive has been extended a further distance of 33 ft. making the total distance south from the crosscnt 258 ft.
North Drive. This drive is now in a total distance north from the crosscut of 189 ft. The lode continues abont 7 ft. thick of solid oro in which a little gold can be seen.
Bukit Jellis. This shaft has been sunk and timbered 25 ft. during the month. It is now a total depth of 123 ft. Good progress is being made with the sinking as the water is easily kept down. Our greatest trouble is to get away the mullock, which has all to be done with manual labour. This will make progress slower the deeper we go.
Battery. This has been kept steadily going during the month. On Monday, 8th inst., a ge meral clean up took place for the 9 weeks' work when 2,453 tons of ore yielded 1,752 ozs. 16 dwts. smelted gold, being an average of about 14 dwts. 7 grs. per ton. This is an improvement on our last crushing which I have every reason to expect will be kept up if not improved upon in the future, The following are the particulars of the ore crushed:---
Bukit Koman Raub Hole
2,317 tons
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1353 2,453 tous.
Crushing was resumed at 7 p.m. the same evening and has continued steadily since.
Electric Installation. The weather has not
outdoor work !
been at all favourable for but appears to have taken up during the week. This work is well in hand; we have contractors at work on pipe and flume line, excavating power station, making road from Simpam Gap to Power Station When this road is completed it will be of great and also making road from Simpam to Tras.
assistance to us in getting stores, machinery, and sawn timber on to the ground and consider- ably reduce our cost of transport. The heavy rains we had at the beginning of the mouth have caused a lot of sickness amongst the coolies. They are well housed and I hope that now the weather is better the health of the camp will improve.
GILBERT B. WHYTE.
We learn from Kinkiang that the compradore of one of the foreign hongs there has disap- peared. It was reported that his defalcations amount to something between 37,000 and 50,000 taels; He is a young man, and has succeeded so far in evading the search that is being made for him.--N. C: Daily News.
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ANNUAL REGATTA MEETING.
FIRST DAY, THURSDAY, 9TH December.
The annual regatta held in connection with the Victoria Recreation Club was commenced on Thursday. The day was an ideal one for both the rowing boats and the yachts, the tem- perature being pleasantly warm and the wind just sufficiently strong to temper the heat of the sun and fill the sails. The German mail steamer Hohenzollern was again set apart as the flagship and quite a large number of people assembled on board, to watch the progress of the various events and to listen to the
Band of the Hongkong Regiment, which was in attendance during the afternoon. The sport was most enjoyable. The two principal events were the Chairman's Cup and the Ladies' Prize. The former was won by the crew stroked by, Alves, and there can be до question that they thoroughly deserved their victory. It was very unfortunate that owing to ад oar snapping just on the point of starting Sanders's crew were unable to take part in the race. The Ladies' Prize, as usual, evoked very great interest. Three crews en- tered and R. F. Lammert again had the pleasure. of stroking his crew to victory. It will be re- membered that he wou this event last year and therefore he and his men came in for an extra ovation at the finish. Miss B. Jacksou pre- sented the prize or board the flagship and warmly congratulated the winners. Cheers were given for the ladies of Hongkong and for the winning crew and Lammert then pre- sented Miss Jackson with a handsome bouquet. Thursday's proceedings were carried out in a manner highly creditable to all the officials, the consequence being that there was not a single hitch of any kind. A small "man-of- war created considerable amusement. This vessel was a sort of pocket edition of H.M.S. Victory, and as it flitted about here and there ander sail it presented quite a unique appear- ance. Those spectators who returned by the Fame had a bit of excitement during the journey. The Fame had slowed down some distance from the wharf when she was ran into by a Chinese steam launch, but fortunately no damage was done beyond smashing the stem of the launch and scraping some paint off the Fame.
The following is a list of the officials:- President-His Excellency Sir William Robinson, G.C.M.G.
Stewards:His Excellency. Admiral Sir Alex. Buller, K.C.B.. His Excellency, Major- General Black, C.B., Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., D. E. Brown, His Honour Sir John Carrington, Kt.,. C.M.G., Colonel Fraser, R.A.. Lient.-Col C. S. Gordon, W.Y.R., D. Gillies, Commodore Holland, R.N., A.D.C., Rounseville Wildman, T. Jackson, J. H. Lewis, L. Von Löeper, Major Lindley, R.E, A. P. MacEwen, St. C. Michaelsen, E. W. Mitchell, R. M. Moses, H. N. Mody, Jose de Navarro, Lieut. Col. The O'Gorman, D.A.A.G., W. H.. Ray, Major Retallick, H.K.R., A. G. Romano, A. Ross, H. A. Ritchie, Hou. Commander R. Murray Rumsey, R.N., N. A. Siebs, Herbert Smith, Hon. T. Sercombe Smith, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C. A. Tomes, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. H. E. Wodehouse.
Committee-Com. W. C. H. Hastings, R.N. (Chairman), Mr. E. Bischoff, G. A. Caldwell, R. F. Lammert, R. K. Leigh, W. Armstrong, A. Denison, G. L. Duncan, T. H. Reid, M. A. A. Souza, W. H. Potts (Hon. Treasurer), W. Machell (Acting Hon. Secretary.
Judges of the Rowing Races.-Messrs. R. K. Leigh, and Hon. Com. W. C. H. Hastings, R.N.
Umpires and Starters.-Rowing Starler, W. H. Potts; Umpire; Mr. C. H. Thompson. Yachts-Mr. G. C. Anderson. Open Sailing. Boats-Mr. F. D. Goddard.
Judge of the Sailing Races.-Hou. Com. W. C. H. Hastings, R.N.
Time-keeper Mr. T. F. Hough. LIGHT GIGS.; open to the Chinese crews of the same hong or office, regiment, corps, depart- ment, or ship. Boats must carry a European coxswain. Boats to be passed by the Com. mittee. Distance, one mile. Time allowance, 8 seconds per oar; 1st prize. $10; 2nd prize, $5. Post entry.
Majorie (Victor Emanuel) 6 oars Joan (Victor Emanuel) 6 oars
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