QUEEN OF BEAUTY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2163, 9 December 1875, Page 2

QUEEN OF BEAUTY.

The company's mill for the last nine days has been intermittingly employed, reducing stuff obtained from No. 1 lode taken out from the strike of the hill above the road level, (surface stuff), and proved that the lode in this upper portion will not pay. The proceeds only amounting to 43 ounces 15 dwts retorted gold. This is precisely the same lode worked with profit by the shareholders at deeper levels, the lowest being the best, (and i 3 identical with that now. worked in the City of London No. 3 level.) The blocks intervening between the water level and the surface have for the most part been exhausted during the past two months, driving the manager to the hill above the roadway, and which has so far proved a failure. There remains, however, a large amount of reef covered by the hill fully 150 feet, which may prove of a better description. A drive into the hill from the road has been put in cutting the reef, which will be driven" upon in expectation of the reef improving in its course. It is evident however that the delay in arranging the difficulty consequent upon the Bright Smile pumps stopping is bad policy, the mines are eating their heads off. With the knowledge that gold exists in the bottom levels it is to be hoped that satisfactory terms will be arrived at for the good of all parties. The magnitude of the evil increases every day, and nothing would tend so much to the prosperity of the Waio-Karaka in particular, and to the interests of all classes as the resumption of these important works.