PERSEVERANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2776, 7 January 1878, Page 2

PERSEVERANCE.

Mr George Mason, the manager of this mine, has arrived in town with the welcome intelligence that he has discovered a rich gold bearing leader. He informs me that on New Year's- Day himself and a man named Woods were employed making a, face on the hillside a few feet above the tramway leading to the battery, when they came upon the cap of the leader, then only three inches thick. He has sank on it, and it has opened out to about eight inches, and gives promise of a further increase in size going down. It shows gold freely, and the 1 manager brought down with him about 121bs of specimen stone which are to be seen at the legal manager's, Mr Horsbrugh's, office. The reef runs north and south and dips east, but tne angle is very slight, being about one in one and a half. It thus goes down right into the company's ground/ and is probably the same one that the manager worked near the Welcome boundaryVwheW however, it was in hard ground, and was unpayable. Mr Mason is sinking a winze on it, and expects shortly to be crushing a trial parcel of five or six tons from it.