PIAKO.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2826, 6 March 1878, Page 2

PIAKO.

The prospects of the mine, are in a little improved condition just now to what they were a week or two ago. There are about one dozen tributes now being worked.employing on the aggregate 71 men, and they are all in good spirits. There are six new blocks now ready to let Lara and party are crushing 30 tons at Ferry's battery (late Bright Smile) and Fletcher and party, have a parcel shaping payably at Bull's. They are crushing 20 tons. Williams and party, Noonan and party, and Wilton and party will be crushing shortly. It will be remembered that seme time back I reported the sinking of a : winae on the No. 1 reef at the .No. 6 level, and the stoppage of operations in the north cross cut from No. 8 level. The sinking of the wince referred to has also been suspended and a new one started on the shaft lode which it is expected will juction wiilt No. 1 leader some 30 or 40 feet below the No. 6 level. The crosscut being put in towards the Vanguard section is now in about 71 feet from the Bird-iu Hand reef. Some quartz has been met with including a leader about six inches thick which has a very kindly appearance. The Bird in-Hand crossreef should soon be to hand. It has never been worked before at this depth, but paid pretty well at a higher level when worked by the Bird-inHand. The Vanguard lode is a fine large body of stone a trial from which, in the old days, gave five or 7dwts per ton. «The Vanguard people simply drove through it, and nothing more was done on it from that day to this. The South British lodes are to the'southeastward of the Vanguard, and where worked on the surface gave fair prospects.

. HAPE OBEEK. Tetley and party have finished crushing for the yield of 24ozs 7dwts gold.

PRETTY JANE. A crushing for. Gibbons and party realised 4oes Bdwts gold.