CROWN PRINCESS.
At the 400 t" et or bottom level the contractors have now fiuished up, the timbering being completed on Saturday. The connection with the No. 4 level affords pood ventilation, and will enable the development of the new level to proceed speedily. The manager is now awaiting instructions from Auckland to let contracts for diiving both ways ou the No. 2 lode, commencing, at the point where gold was obtained iv the intersection of the reef. At the .No. 3 level Kendall and party having put in a crosscut 73 . feet "long and cut the No. 4 lode have driven 43. feet, on its course. In the present face the country is much broken, but the tributers expect .a change for the better when they , get under the winze from No. 2 level. The leader is about four inches thick, and gold has been seen in it. Pearce and party hq>ve taken a new tribute section on No. 3 lode, and have commenced cleaning, out "the crosscut. Graham, Bice and party (sixmen).aro driving ior the No. .1, in the New Exchange section, and have some fifty fe,et yet to put in. This lode ' paid moderately well when worked by the New Exchange Company, and the tributers expect it to remunerate the n handsomely. They have done a great deal of dead work. Two other crowds, Wayte and party and Schofield and party, are winzing and driving on the No. 2 lode. At No.' 2 level Downie and party are workiag the No. 1 in Exchange section.; They have accumulated a parcel.of fifty jor sixty tons, which will be crushed shortly at :Bull's mill. There are four other ,parties also working on this level,- all:of 1 whom, more or less, are getting gold. At the No. 1 level, Herival and part^and Morton and party are stoping and breaking quartz, and Clarking and party are driving on No. 4 leader into ths, Exchange This latter party have commenced a trialerushing of two loads at Bull's mill. !The manager'informs me that as soon as sufficient quartzes broken at the low-level [he intends to have a trial crushing.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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356CROWN PRINCESS. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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