MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 14 July 1880, Page 2

MOANATAIRI.

The manager in his last report says speaking of the 300 feet level—Throe shifts are employed, so as to push for* ward under the winze, thus opening up the ground and allowing ventilation. The only change to notice here is that stringers of quartz are showing. Tunnel level: We are making fair progress with the Nonpareil cross cut, 25 feet having been driven this week, through light country traversed with quartz stringers. Timbering up the drive will be completed in a day or two, after which two shafts will be started to put a rise on the big, or Golden Age reef, so as to thoroughly prospect this lode. Sufficient air for ventilation can be obtained from the water.blast in Point Russell, and the rise will be so constructed that trucks can be worked in it for the transit of all stuff to the battery or elsewhere. Eighty feet level: The cross-cut west from No. 2 slide has broken through to the drive on the branches of No. 3 reef, and good ventilation is now obtained. We shall now start to pros, peel the different leaders intersected. The stopes do not show any change to mention, but the stuff crushed is not showing the usual average, the workings being carried against the runs of gold. I expect the crushing to improve in a day of two.