WAITEKAURI.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2830, 11 March 1878, Page 2

WAITEKAURI.

The following is the mine manager's report:—To the Directors Waitekauri G.M.Co.—Gentlemen, —ln submitting to you this week's report, I hare to state that the operations carried on in your mine hare been generally similar J&. character to those alluded toio~Biy~Tast communication, with th>«Xception of tiro rises haring beenpw^p from the bottom to the intermpHste lerel. One of these

is on the north end of block No. 3, and the other on the south end of No. 4. The former was in progress at tho day of my last report, but the latter was nofc commenced until last week. It will be remembered that in my last report I stated that in order to secure the ground, stoping had to be discontinued in block No. 3. The rise in this block was then expected to be through in the course of a few days j but, owing to the hardness of the country, we did not break through until Saturday last. The lower portion is now in course of being timbered—a* necessary precaution before any filling can be tent down from the surface, and stoping again resumed. The whole of the quartz treated at the mill during the last fortnight'for the Waitekauii Co. has been obtained from block No. 2 and the Golden Point, with the exception of about 30 tons which were derived from the Golden Crown portion of the mine, with a view to test a lead in the upper level, and which, I am sorry to have to add, did not prove payable. The contract for driving in the 90 feet level by Simms and party will be completed about Saturday next, and I have called for tenders for a further extension of the drive to a dis lance of 250 feet. The tunnel in the Queen Company's mine also will be up to the Waitelrauri Company's boundary by about the same time. At the battery crushing has been maintained with an average of 24 head of stamps, which have reduced about 210 tons of quartz, 25 tons being for the public, and 185 tons for the Waitekauri Company. The yield for the latter was 81oss of amalgam. This result, as you will, perceive, is not payable, and ought noti* be taken as a criterion for the whole or the blocks now being operated upon, seeing that only on Saturday last, when ihe rise broke through into the intermediate level, there was good stone visible on the hanging wall side of the reef, which fact convinces me that there must soon occur an improvement in the ..quality of the stone now being broken oat. The above number of tons of quarts represents alto the quantity conveyed down the tram* way.