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The Waikato Times 25 Mar 1886 p2 c2
(Reference from newspaper index Hamilton Public Library - not found?)

John Chambers of Morrin & Co., Auckland, visiting Karangahake to
arrange for start of the La Monte furnace.

The Waikato Times 27 Apr 1886
Latest from the Goldfields [by Telegraph - own correspondent]

Karangahake, Paeroa, Monday
The new battery and Mackay pan plant is now fairly started. Mr 
Chambers of T. & S. Morrin & Co., has sent carpenters and other
workmen from town, and the machinery, which is not already here, will
follow almost immediately. The Karangahake furnace, according to Col.
Fraser will, whether Mr La Monte consents or not, be in full blast
in a week's time. The manager, Mr W. Littlejohn, informs me, however,
that if La Monte does not put his own experts on, that the Woodstock
Smelting Company will have to send to California for them. At present
both mine and furnace are at a total standstill, the hoppers and
furnace platform being choked up with ore. It seems a great pity that
such should be the case, especially as the ore is of such grand
quality. Mr Montgomery, M.A., who is at present in charge of the
district branch of the school of mines, assayed on Saturday last a
piece of quartz from the Woodstock, from which a mortar prospect
could not be obtained, not even a colour being visible in the dish.
The fire assay, however, returned a value in bullion at the rate of
940 pounds 14s per ton. Mr D. H. Bayldon, mining surveyor, made a
survey on Monday of the mine, which showed that the level south had
been driven over the Kenilworth boundary.

The Waikato Times 19 Jun 1886
Arrangements are being made to light the Woodstock furnace, 
Karangahake, by the beginning of July.