PIAKO,

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2944, 23 July 1878, Page 2

PIAKO,

The cutting through of the Vanguard lode at No. 6 level has been completed, and it has been found to be about 14 feefc from wall to wall. The reef dips away towards the shaft, the hanging wall being first touched by the cross-cut. On the hanging wall gDod colors of gold were seen/as already reported. The lode looks well for gold, end has every indication of being payably auriferous. The stone in some places is hard, and in other places rather rubbly, but all through it is heavily charged with different kinds of ; mineral, many of which are usually found in a gold-bearing lode. The lode was so well drained that when cat, little, or no water had to be contended with, which is rather unusual in a lode of that size. However, its intersection hes been attended with a considerable influx of gas end work is at present suspended: Men are employed constructing air boxes, which it is intended will be laid from the air shaft to the workings, and insure a good current of air. The manager expects to start putting in the boxes to-morrow, and in a few days work will be resumed. To-day a start at crushing the stun 0 obtained while cutting through the lode was made at Vickery's battery.. There will probably be about 15 loads. It is impossible to tell how the stuff is going to shape. None of the tributers are crushing just now.