OUR MINES.
MOANATAIEI.
The report of the mine manager for the week is as follows :—" 150 feet level— Driving west on All JSations reef will be resumed ou Monday nest. The stopes here are producing payable stuff. 80----feet level—The drive west on No. 2 reef has broken through to foot-wall branch of No 3: When wo have completed timbering up this drira a prospecting cross-cut will be started to intersect niaiu slide with a view to prove the country in this direction. Tunnel level—The drive west from jtfo. 2 slida to conheot with the workings on No. 3 reef has broken through, discovering a leader 3 inches I thick. From this-lcwt of picked stone and spficiiaeDs has been obtained, and it is . still looking very we'j-. 'The ... stopes throughout the mine are yielding . good parable stuff which is showing up well at" the battery. Early this week the battery was stopped two days, and the air compressor throe days to give the machinery ah overhaul.. There are now 39statnps employedoa company's stuff, and 10 head tributers. Tnunel crosscut south has gone through a hard dyke, 5 feet thick. Owing to this, and the stoppage, duly 5 feet has been driren. As we are now fairly through the hard stone, bjjt*fbr progress will be made.—l am,. &c, itOBEET CoJIEB."
GOLD EETUHNS. Majou.—A, crushing from tin*.claim produced 190k3 15dwts gold. Poktia —Johns and party have banked 3ozs 19dwts gold.
We (Daily Telegraph) hail with the greatest satisfaction the return of Mr Whitaker to the Legislature of New Zealand. Whatever may have been the electioneering errors that were the cause of Mr Whitakcr's defeat; in the contest for the representation'of Eden, his enforced absence from Parliament could only be regarded as a colonial misfortune. Intimately associated as he has been with the Government and legislation of this colony for the last twenty-three years, it reflected no credit on the Grey party to win a victory at Eden so dearly bought as the rejection of Mr Whitaker. If nothing else is gained by the resignation of Sir George Grey's Ministry than the recall to the Legislative Council of Mr Whitaker, at least there will be something upon which to congratulate the colony. Tho colored brother in ft Virginia church hit the nail on the head when he prayed at the close of the white brother*! sermon; "Lord, bless de brudder to whom ire hti listened to to patiently."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3378, 20 October 1879, Page 2
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404OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3378, 20 October 1879, Page 2
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