MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3655, 13 September 1880, Page 2

MOANATAIRI.

The manager is driving the Nonpareil crosscut diagonally across the main slide, and expects to have to drive a considerable distance before getting through it. When the solid country is reached he will drive along the seaward side of the slide, the leaders butting up against which be expects to get some gold. The manager's weekly report is as follows:— •• Point Russell section: Since starting to " rise from 109 feet level against winze no reef has been broken. We are now up 16 feet. Golden Age Rise : The leaders in hanging wall part and also the upper portion of the reef are more auriferous than hitherto. Nonpareil crosscut has intersected the main slide and is now 100 feet into it; by carrying the drive straight we shall cross the slide at an acute angle, and 40 feet will have to be driven before.„ getting through it. After this is done we shall drive on the seaward slide where the golden, leaders shall be met with. In crosscut from footwall branch of No. 3, there is 20 feet more to drive to reach to boundary. A leader 3 inches thick and showing a little gold has been met with. Intermediate level.—ln driving cast on the hanging-wall branch we have broken into old stopea on No. 2 reef. There remains a large block of payable ground on those leaders to work out at this level, and also 132 feet level. 150 feet level.—A new cross-cut will be started in a few days on east side of No. 2 slide for the purpose of prospecting the ground in this direction; During the past fortnight 324 tons of quartz including lircwt. picked stone, has been crushed, yielding 229 ounces retorted gold.—l am, &c, Robert Comeb."