MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3197, 19 May 1879, Page 2

MOANATAIRI.

! In the cross-cut at 218 feet level the manager hits cut a small auriferous leader!!. The winze connecting the two lower levels of the mine is! showing quarts of a very likely, .character. .The crushing at the company's mill is shewingJan limprovement; oa lait return. The Point Rus?ell stuff, |is shaping payablyi'The'mine^ managerl^ ;weekly y report * is-- a%r follows:—" 218 feet leTel.—From the character of the quartz and country, I hare had some doubt whether we were driving on No.'9 reef. To prore this a cross-cut was-put ;in north. A leader three, inches thick has. |been intersected showing good colors of' ! gold, and there is still quartz" in the face* The winze sinking 150 feet-level is down 50 feet. The reef here is three feet jj thick; .well-defined, and ..promising for. | gold.' .80' feet leret.~ln?'driving^wesV I No. 3 refefis much split" up, but in ft) few feet more, will, I think, begetter defined, jas the reef in winze 50 feet below th* jI tunnel level is a nioe compact loda, 1,8) [inches thick. The stopes throughout are: j without change to report, and the generall | crushing is showing an improvement upon) last return. South cross-cut 'TunneF : level has' been Extended '17$-'•^•t.vthif week through.; tight, country^ containing' ; stringers,",'.of quartz, In Point' Eussell' ; section we are driving and stopiug with nine men in three shifts. The reef in west end from winze is three • feet; thick; ' showing 1 good colors of gold, and r Jppks promising. In the eatt end; reef]is.ytwo feet thick, and well-defined. Fire stampers are kept constantly, crushing from tnis part of the mine, and the stuff is showing payable. Inthe battery we arere bedding Nos. 7 and 8 boxes which were getting loose, and required re-fitting. r-RoBTi Covixs^'- U i;: i;: :■■! >\ T,s"if] <V