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There are 10 or 12 tons of quart* on hand noir, but the manager will not be in a position to resume crushing for tome

tirao yet, in consonuuiice of the number of unproductive works now in progress in the mine. Sinking of the winze on the No. 7 reef is proceeding, and is making good pregress. Up to the present no deterioration iv the value of the lode, is perceptible, and if sufficient inducement offers—that is. if the the lode is payable when Iho winze is down to the depth of the No. 2 level—the manager intends to extend a crosscut from the No. 2 level workings to meet the bottom of the winze. This will give an easy method for working the block, and will dispenso with the arduous winding of quartz by the winze. The present operations on the No. 7 lode are proceeding in a highly satisfactory manner, and gold continues to be seen frequently enough, so that the lode continues payable. The other operations do not call for any particular comment just now. Hunter and party, who had a splendid return last week, arc working away taking out another crushing. The stringer they work is about a Bnger breadth thick, and the four loads crushed last week took them two or three months to take out. Walters and party, working a tribute section near the Waiotahi boundary, have completed a crushing of 11 loads tor the yield of llozs lOdwts gold.