QEEEN OF BEAUTY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2909, 12 June 1878, Page 2

QEEEN OF BEAUTY.

The crushing of stuff from the JSo* 8 level is still in progress, and the plates are showing up for a first-class yield—probably 1-J- ounces to the load. The reef

continues of the same average size as when first intersected at this depth, and as the walls are easy, if other circumstances were favorable a la r^e amount of stuff could be taken out. However, the " other circumstances" are not favorable. Nine men are employed down here working three per shift, and one man has to be kept constantly at the fan, otherwise the gas would toon "expel the workers from the face. As the drive has not been timbered, mullock and stuff is constantly falling down and obslrucliug work, so tbat it will be seen thai work cannot be carried on to advantage, and the directors have wisely come to the decision to suspend operations here till their own shaft has " holed " through (o the No. 8 level, as it is no use making good stuff unpayable. When this new level is opened up there will be more than one hundred feet of backs all through the mine, while the length on the course of the reef will be about 1500 feet, and already there is some talk that it is likely that the Piako large mill will be started on this company's stuff. There is not much fresh in the mine. Gold is seen frequently in the stone from the Queen of the May section, and there was a fine stone at the battery yesterday from the reef in this part of the claim. It wes most heavily mineralised with blotches, of gold showing through it. I hear that it is intended to add several other berdans to the company's mill.