Our Mining Reporter.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 3 September 1875, Page 3

Our Mining Reporter.

CUjRE.

. The month's transactions in this mine hare been marked by vigour, as regards the amount of work performed, and m perfecting arrangements for further developing' its resources. . Contracts have been, taken for open;ng out. a new level, 70 feet below the present working one ; this will be accomplished by driving from the Caledonian shaft, a distancs of about 180 feet; and by sinking a winze upon No 5 reef. These works will be carried on simultaneously, and afford facilities for blpcking out the new level before the present one is exhausted.- Work is also resqined in the level above, breaking th^rfgn into the Manukau as well as^to connect with t\e bottom of the Cure shaft, and independent of the value of quartz that may be realized, this latter work will thoroughly ventilate, the mine from, top to bottom. The footwall leader has been driven on to its junction with the cross-lode, and has somewhat scattered the lode, but the cross-leader continues its course bearing the foot-wall one with it, and is now thirty fefct from the Red Queen boundary, "'^^oping on Nos. 4 and 5 continue to supply-requirements for the mill. The batteryiT^fns, though not equal to last aionth, are satisfactory, leaving a fair margin of profit^ upon .expenses. The number of '< ouccej?#retorted was 583.; and 6 lbs of ctaict?'-stone purchased by the Bank of New Zealand for transmission to the Philadelphia* Exhibition, as a pontributitin from the Thames Gcldheld towards this International Exposition.