KURANUI HILL UNITED

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3090, 13 January 1879, Page 2

KURANUI HILL UNITED

The workings in the Oddfellows section were again risited this morning. There is no change to report in connection with the low lerel cross-cut, it being in about the same class of country as last week. There are seventy or eighty feet to drive before the lode is cut. In the intermediate lerel the manager is pushing on the different operations rigorously, and has some 20 men at work. The stopes show no change. The leading stope north has been carried forth to the face of the right-hand branch, where the lode is about a foot thick, a considerable quantity of which is solid quartz. In the winze there is a good strong body of quartz, and on the southern faces the lode remains about the same. The left-hand branch, is rery small. At the time of my riiit k small parcel of stuff was broken out of the drive in both ends, and having been submitted to a berdan test at the battery, each of them gave a fair prospect, although no gold had been previously risible in the stone. The whole force of the mill continues to crush on company's dirt, which, I am informed, is areraging from two to three ounces per ton all round. The stuff from the stopes over the drive, whence last crushing was derived, is perhaps shaping best.