THE URAL.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1772, 7 September 1874, Page 2

THE URAL.

The Ural is the name given to the old Hand and Sand ground lately sold at, the hammer. Why the present proprietors thought such a long way to find a name ' for the claim I do not know. „ 'Perhaps one of them had trailed a bit: As the ground bought'is neither on nor in a .mountain, that is nothing to me, not being godfather. The ground actually ig a piece of land that should connect the whole system of reefs on the Thames flat, that is, if worked by such surveys , as may be made. There is> more than a chance of the Ural having a portion of | the Manukau shot of gold, but I think at! a low level. Where the shaft should, be, (one is put down) I can. give a! •■■pretty shrewd guess. In the ground tho ■ old St. Lawrence and one or two other,

reefs mast run through it, and the old difficulty, the water question, is nowobviated by the operations of the Pumping Association. To-day, at a meeting of the owners of tho claim, Mr. Chapman was deputed to ' consult with Messrs Wright and Bayldon as to tho best method of working the ground; immediately on their decision being known active mining operations will" bo at once commenced. 1 hear the claim was to hare been christened the Missing Link:, that is just., what the piece of ground comprised in the claim is—it is a missing link, sp far aa reefs are concerned, between the Imperial City and the Crown Princoi