PIAKO.
It is intended to stop the pumps for a day or two on Saturday next in order to fix the old lift to facilitate the sinking of the shaft. It is expected that this will be done and all the water pumped out again by Monday or Tuesday, so that the -stoppage will not be felt.. ; The manager intends to' employ the time of the stoppage in filling in the stopes. : Today the capstan was manned for/; the purpose of fixing the bottom of the cistern, .but the work did not require the stoppage of the pump. In the large face the reef has contracted in size, and is now about. 16 feet from wall to wall. ;
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2605, 15 May 1877, Page 2
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118PIAKO. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2605, 15 May 1877, Page 2
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