NEW ZEALAND INDEPENDENT.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2896, 28 May 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND INDEPENDENT.

The w.-k of cL.ning out the drive has been progressing'vigorously during the last few (.ays, and now a slight delay has occmred ii'rou'jh waat of timber which will be on the ground shortly. Tie first hundred feet or so of this clave is in buken ground, and ia bad repair, jut beyond that for ihe res* of tbe (500 feet ihere is good solid country which do^s not require timbering, and all that will berequir d to be done to put tais level in working order will be to clean out two or Ihr; g feet of slush ia the bottom; and l.y rails. In this levei there is ov^r IC'J feet of the Jc'm-o'-Groats or Diron's . ready stripped, wlrch work was done in fornrsr t'mes, the then shareholders being so anxious to geJ up to the lotuliiy of tbe shot of gold—worked in the upper 'evel —that theyJeft this large stretch of quartz standing. The rcof is about six feet thick, and what little is known of it augurs payable working. Once tba level is repaired some of this quartz will be teken out. iThe'mouth of the drive opens into linkers -Gully, and a ground tramway round the hill will probably be the connection between the mine and Mc.natairi. tramway. The company is iipt dependent on the Old Whau and Black Angel com,panies for the use of the tunnel whica the bttrer new companies in tl is vicinLy arc.