WAITEKAURI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2786, 18 January 1878, Page 2

WAITEKAURI.

The following is a copy of the mine manager* usual weekly report to the directors, dated January 14th :—•" Gentle* men,—During the last week there has been no material change in your mine requiring special notice. The stone conveyed and treated at the mill being obtained as formerly from the Golden Point and No. 3 and 4 blocks; also a few tons from the block over the No. 3 between the intermediate and Leahy's level, which* for the sake of reference, I shall for the future denote as No. 2. From this latter source, during the past week, a few very good shows hare been obtained, showing gold freely, and similar to that taken from the No. 1 run in the Leahy level, and which was about forty feet north of the present workings. This, to all appearance, is a continuation of that ran. I may further state for your information thnt I hare to-day commenced to sink a winze'on the No. 2 run below the bottom ierel, but I am afraid that I shall make but little progress until the 70 feet lerel is sufficiently far advanced to drain the large body of water which will hare to bo contended against in sinking. At the battery, I am sorry to say that the water supply is again almost at its minimum, there being only sufficient to drive twenty head of stamps. The average number working for the week has been thirty-two head, four of which hare been employed on Young New Zealand quarts for three days, the remainder on that of the com* pany, which reduced for the latter 280 tons with a yield of 301 ounces of amalgam from plates, ripples, <fee—l have, &c., E. M. Cobbbtt.