MOANATAIRI.
There is little change since my last report. During the past week good progress lias been made with the main tunnel, which has been extended 23 feet. The Point Bussell winze is now down 20 feet, and has still to go down, 200 feet before the tunnel; isj reached. At the present rate of progress the tunnel will be under where the winze will strike in about three months, and as it "will take longer to sink the winze, a rise will be started to meet
it. The stopes continue to yield well in quantity, but the 150 feet level stopes, taken as a whole, are not so good as the 80 feet are, or rather have been, so that the quality of thq stone at present going through the mill is rather low. The operations on the section of the No. 9 reef between the slides are giving good quartz. Whisker and parly banked sozs ad* dilional to-day, as the result of a final cleaning up after their late crushing.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2806, 11 February 1878, Page 2
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172MOANATAIRI. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2806, 11 February 1878, Page 2
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