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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2849, 2 April 1878, Page 2

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This claim, lituated on the Kuranui gaily, was visited to-day, and after going through the various workings, I found that since iriy previous visit, which took place about a month ago, the managing shareholder, Mr Kingsford, has done a great deal of work towards the development of the claim; The main cross-cut is now in upwards of 350 feet, and a material change has taken place in the nature of the country : formerly it was shooting ground, but it is < soft clayey country, in which" is a perfect mass of quartz stringers which .show that the wall of the slide has not yet been come io. The quartz in this slide is hungry stuff showing a little mineral, but not of a kind likely to be a concomitant with gold, and, indeed, Mr Kingsford informed me that repeated tests have failed to discover any indication of the precious metal. In my last report reference was made to a drive on a black seam of quarts running towards the Flying Eagle shaft. The manager has followed this, and risen on it, and is now evidently only a few feet under the bottom of the shaft, as all the ground is broken. The rising on the eeam was rather a round-about way of getting to the shaft, and some time would have been saved by going up on the underlie. The quartz at the head of this rise is the kindliest I hare seen come out of .the claim, and there are copper stains and other pretty reliable indications of the presence of gold to be seen. A considerable amount of annoyance has been caused by the difficulty of obtaining | any information concerning the old Fly-1

ing Eagle workings from the former shareholders of that claim. In conclusion I may add, as some of the shareholders are getting disheartened at the great amount of dead work that has been done without return, that another month's work should prove the claim.