MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3661, 20 September 1880, Page 2

MOANATAIRI.

Oa Friday last the manager obtained some 40lbs of good specimen stone from the middle stope. Colors of gold are seen in the leaders and stringers of quartz striking into the slide in Nonpareil cross-cut. The manager's report ii as follows :—" Tunnel level: Nonpareil crosscut is being driren at an acute angle to maio slide, in consequence of which there is a greater length of it to pass through. A series of quartz reins and stringers are striking through the slide. These shows colors of gold, and will be worked upon wben we are through the slide. My chief obj ct is to push the cross-cut forward, and effect communication with Nonpareil shaft for ventilation. Golden Age rise is now up 50 feet, and the stone is more compact, containing iron pyrites with a little copper and antimony. 1 purpose wben up 70 feet to cut across the reef, and hare a trial crushing from it. 150 feat lerel: A new cross cut has been started south on No. 2 slide. It was not my intention to hare driren on the slide, but after working a few feet a quartz leader 8 inches thick was picked up showing blotches ef gold. The cross-cut at tunnel from footwall branch of No. 3 is home to ILuranui boundary, and has not intersected anything encouraging. A rise is now is being put up on No. 3 leader to prospect it. The crushing stuff from the. rarious drires and stopes has been of low grade this week, but I am pleased to say that the picked stone will make up the difference. Yesterday 401bs of first-class specimens were broken from the middle stope. These leaders, though small, at times yield nice patches of gold. Point .Russell rise is up 30 feet, and no reef has been broken since starting. Another fortnight's work will connect with winze sunk from abore.—Koit. Combb."