NEW WHAU.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3620, 3 August 1880, Page 2

NEW WHAU.

Crushing was again resumed at the Herald mill this week, quartz being sent from all parts of the mine, and the manager will soon have a very good idea of the relative merits of the stove from the different workings. I visited the mine to-day and found that the improvement mentioned in respect to 160 feet level continues, the body of crushing stuff having widened out to about 2£ feet. The buck reef in the other wall is still large and poor looking. There is no change of importance to mention in the stopes. In the intermediate level there is a considerable change in the reef in the face, a few nice looking quartz veins showing in the wall. These, however, are enveloped in a rather , uninviting belt of grey sandstone of a character that some experts might think would detract from the worth of the lode. The main body of the reef looks a payable grade of stone. Some nice colors of gold continue to be_ seen in the stopes where the lode is looking its best, and I should not be at all surprised if rich gold were disclosed in the next stope across the break. In my previous report I referred to a statement to the effect that a portion of the block between the Whau and 70 feet levels was not intact, and for tbis I was taken to task in the mining columns of the Advertiser, and unworthy motives imputed. It would appear that if a portion of the the block is exhausted it ib not marked on the plan and there appears to he a doubt whether the operations I referred to, are on the Sons of Freedom reef, or on another lode running parallel with that body of stone.