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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3173, 21 April 1879, Page 2

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, To-day the manager had men employed? timbermgr X P|>iti.he;iN9/ 1 winze, Point Bussell lection, and no stuff was broken down,. \The winze is now down 66 fejaj. In the main tunnel 16 feet hat been driven this week, and a better class of groHnl has been met with. The maaager>,w«ekl|; report is rs follows:~''Point EusseU, section: The winze ii lidwKtibwn 55 feet below the oretklevel, juadcjhejjee/ which was carried down is-dipping south. A new reef, which X think ii tha A 1 Daw,iL of Hape" (as shownohlpltti),?has bowitt from hanging wall, with 'ah underlieobrth, and should junction with *Point Russell lode about thiW point. The reef!just<r#f ferred to is three 'feet thick—strmg?;aa& well defined. 14lbs. of specimens nwerrf obtained, containing healthy coarse 1 fcoldP and a quantity of'gold-bearing mttierativ showing iri;bott6m. Some of'it wit( Wfifoill to the battery next/ Main TujinelhktbeeiJ extended 16 ; feet this week^^Thailu^rtM or jreef^.jwfcjicii 'fin.; been '.^fecJftitur' jpfß driVe for a month psst; is now gOibVoff into north side, and we are now in a better class of country for^uriferougfocfi;: 31g Feet Lerel.—ln driTinjc wert aa 1 bwdt" his beared No. 9 reef 4feet lOutißp^Slsf lode is now 21 feet thiok, and shows sr little mineral. I may mention that the country in west side is changed in chargeter, and corresponds with the ground Yt 80 feet level, in and ft^bout which the rich thick, but rather sp^t,up. In, a few feet further it will becDtne^more defined, being started from tunnel level, m order to meet the lerel below fo^ventilttfOT.'a^ open up groUiid for 1 stopißgri This will ■ give some large profitable blocks.to work o'uti There' is no ohange to meiitfouM any of the.Btopfs. pie breakage in Un sea water pipes is now repaired, mnd'>noir pipes are Toeing laid down 'ortskl* (to go through silt works.'* i li:uhuU>,M.