Manager
Perth, 23rd. June.

CENTRAL G.M. COMPANY.

Mr W. E. Clifton, legal manager of the above company, has handed us the
following report, dated Southern Cross, 17 June: —

I have to report for the fortnight ending 14th June.  Crushed for nine
days, 130 tons, yielding 92oz. 16dwts.  The battery has been idle since
Saturday night.  I expect to be able to start it to-morrow night.  The
stoppage is owing to altering the quartz tram and raising the battery tip,
improvements I have had in view for some time.  I hope to have it finished
to-morrow.  I reckon to save one man's labour by it.  The quartz crushed
has been taken from the bottom level, the intermediate and open cutting.
The bottom, or No. 1 level, driven 10 feet for the fortnight, total 26
feet south of the shaft.  Lode in the face over 11 feet wide, and showing
gold.  The intermediate level driven 11 feet, total 36 feet south of shaft
lode, about 9 feet wide, showing gold.
(Signed) HENRY RYAN.
Mine Manager.

FRASER'S G.M. COMPANY.

The following report has been received from Mr. Wm. Oates, mining manager
of the above company: — During the fortnight I have had charge of the
mine, we have been continuing and have finished some of the work mentioned
in my last report.

The men finished repairing the boiler yesterday.  Have let the fire to dry
the engine, making ready to start, before which must fix condensing pipes;
this will take another three or four days.  I hope to set the battery
going not later than Monday next.  I put three men a week since in
Fraser's shaft to make flat and secure ground; show commenced hauling
stone there to-morrow.  I have employed a mason for a few days to erect a
retort and smelting furnace.  We had a little rain a week since and added
two inches of water to the dam.  I am pushing on with energy, and am
confident of making a successful start.  Mr Fraser arrived yesterday.  I
shall bring all my plans under his notice.

and good gold has been found.  About a hundred ounces have been brought in
since Friday.  Many of the miners have come in for a spell, as water is
very scarce on the field.

THE CENTRAL G.M. COMPANY.

A GOOD CRUSHING.

Mr W. E. Clifton, legal manager of the above Company, has handed us the
following report, dated Southern Cross, 7th October: — Yours of the 1st
inst. to hand.  I have now to inform you that I finished cleaning up at
the Battery yesterday morning.  Yield 128 ounces from 125 tons stone, and
have handed over the management of the mine to Mr Cohn.  No. 2 underlie
shaft sunk 17 feet; total 31 feet from the surface.

GOLD MINING IN THE MALAY PENINSULA.

A Singapore correspondent, writing to a friend in Perth, under date Sept
20, refers to the Raub gold mine, which has attracted a good deal of
notice in Australia from time to time, and is situated in Pahang, one of
the States of the Malay Peninsula.  He says: "Mr Bibby, the manager of the
Raub mine, has come down from Pahang this week, bringing with him the
first gold, and there is a good deal of excitement about it.  It does not
seem much to boast of, but it is wonderful how excited people get about
it.  And yet it is quite uncertain whether Raub will be a paying concern,
and as the capital of the Company is £1,000,000 in £1 shares paid up to
17s 9d, it will have to be a rich mine to pay a good dividend.  At present
the shares of £1 each are only worth in Singapore about 1 1/2 dollars, and
possibly people who buy at that price might make 5 per cent. on their
money.  As a matter of fact, however, nobody holds shares as an
investment, but only on the chance of a boom."

as soon as possible.  Since my last we have been engaged in stripping and
sluicing for the week.  I have raised and dressed 20 cwt. ready for the
market, so now I have got 43 cwt. ready, and I am in hopes of being able
to give you a fair output every week from this.  We had the greatest
amount of rain that has ever been on the tinfields today at eleven
o'clock, and it flooded all the gully, so water is plentiful now.  I will
forward this tin to Bunbury by the first team I can get, and I will give
you a further report of what tin I get by the end of next week.

at your mine on the 13th and have to date done the following work.  Put
battery in order, cleaned out both water shafts, tanks, and pits, crushed
104 tons of Central Extended stone and 50 of your own.  Timbered and
raised No 3 shaft 5 feet, sank No 3 shaft six feet, raised about 20 tons
of stone from cutting, raised about 10 tons of mullock from intermediate
level left by Mr Ryan, erected new forge, put new splash boards in boxes,
corked water supply tank, and altered tailing tram.  The above are
improvements I had to make.  I was prospecting the bottom level of main
underlie shaft at about 50 feet from mouth of shaft.  I found there a top
of a shoot of gold, from which I send a piece of stone — I think one of if
not the finest specimen that has been seen on the Cross containing heavy
gold, and it is my opinion that it goes down.  It is my intention to sink
a few feet to try and trace it coming from your deepest level, if still
continuing will make your mine so much more valuable than if got in the
surface cuttings.  I shall start and drive south in bottom level to hole
through to No 3 underlay.  I will clean up on Saturday and Sunday, as I
want to clean out the boiler.  I shall also try and get three inches more
fall to the tables, as it is much required to keep the plates clean.

FRASER'S G.M. COMPANY.

The following report was yesterday received from Mr. Oats, the mining
manager of the above company:

Southern Cross, October 21.
I sent per Mr Fraser, with the last gold, some particulars of the mine.  I
had that I have put one party of men to drive across the lode formation in
Simpson's shaft, finding the lode there of a promising character.  This
drive is 44 feet deep, and I hope soon to increase our quantity of stone
by opening this ground.  I am about to erect a whip at once to help the
hauling.  In Fraser's shaft we are doing some necessary timbering, taking
advantage of our not raising stone for the battery here, as all the stone
being crushed, this return will come from the south end of mine, as I
before intimated.  I am pleased to say the battery is going well, and I
hope to put through a fair quantity of stone.  (Signed)
W. OATS

Mr H. J. Saunders, the legal manager of Fraser’s G.M. Company, has handed
us the following results of any [sic] assay of tailings from the mine,
just made by Mr. B.H. Woodward: Course tailings, 13 dwts. 1 grain gold to
the ton; fine tailings or slime, 6 dwts. 12 grains gold to the ton.

We understand the directors of the above-named company have ordered an
additional 10 head of stampers and another boiler.  They have also
purchased, and are now rapidly erecting, a complete set of Wheeler
grinding fans, for saving the fine gold.  A condenser has also been
ordered and is expected to arrive shortly.

the first crushing of the above Company from 104 tons of stone.

This stone was put through the Central Company's battery and the gold is
now on view in Mr V. E. Nesbit's window, Hay-St.

In reference to the above, Mr W. E. Clifton, manager of the Central and
Central Extended G.M. companies, writes to us to draw attention to the
erroneous statement whict [sic] Tuesday's WEST AUSTRALIAN, that the
crushing there reported was from the Central and not, as was really the
case, from the Central Extended.  The information published by us was from
a thoroughly reliable source, though not received from the Central
Extended office, and there is reason to believe that the omission of the
word "Extended" was quite accidental in our correspondent's paragraph.
But it is much to be regretted that it occurred.