ALBURNIA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3828, 5 April 1881, Page 2

ALBURNIA.

The. manager informs me that a leader 10 inches thick was intersected in the Whau level crosscut to-day. It looks promising though no gold was seen. The battery is now at work, and the manager believes it will fulfil all the expectations concerning it. It is saving about 1\ sluice head of water which means a reduction in the month's expenses of £18. MOANATAIARI. The usual weekly report of the manager is as follows -.—Nonpareil: The adit level is now connected with the sbaft, but this being full of mullock and the air very foul work had to be suspended, and we are now rising through the shaft from tunnel level. 1 think about 40 feet more rising 1 will reach the level above, and when this is completed ventilation will be good. The crosscut .at creek level is being pushed ahead through good country. 150 level: The stops in bottom of this in No. 3 reef is now suspended, the stuff being of low grade. 80 feet level: Nothing fresh has been met with in crosscut south, Morning Star section. The drives and stopes on No. 1 leader have not turned out well this week. The hot stopes above 132 level on No. 3 reef are now well ventilated, a winze having been sunk from a level above. 15 stampers are kept going on surface stuff from Morning Star, which is paying well. I am, &c, Robt. Comer. OLD GOLDEN CALF. The leading stope is progressing, and the reef looks well in the back—alternate layers of quartz and crushing dirt being its component parts, with veins of quartz striking diagonally across from footwall to hangingwall. It is from these quartzy threads that the bulk of the picked stone is obtained. As soon as the stope is home to the face, and timbering, etc., completed driving ahead will be resumed, while the blocking out of quartz will be proceeded with. From the size of the lode it will easily be understood that a large amount of crushing stuff can be turned out without much trouble. On Friday a little

gold was showing in one or two places along the back of the stope, but it is not often the gold is seen until after a breaking dowi has taken place. Already about 80lbs of picked stone have been obtained, and there are from 25 u'BO loads of gene~sl stuff on liand.

EENDIGO UNITED.

Referring to the cleaning out of v Carpenter's level, the manager reports to his directors :—I am happy to inform you that good progress has been made with the work, the drive being now quite secure, and. tram-road laid to a distance of 360 feet. At this point the drive was completely closed up, but we have now got a hole through, so that I was enabled to go 60 feet further in, aud we can now see our way clear for a total distance of 420 feet. At this point the drive is agein closed up, leaving a distance of 280 feet to reach your boundary. lam uuable to say in what state the remainder of the drive will be unti" this is cleared away, as there has been a lot of work done by tributers since the first survey was made. MORNING STAR. An arrangement has been come to between the directors of the above company and the Smile of Fortune, Te Aroha, to enable the quartz from both mines to be transmitted to the flat without sleighing. The Morning Star will find the timber, etc., for a long shoot, tramway, etc., while the Smile shareholders will supply the labor. I hear that the Mining Inspector's department have posted a notice on the Star drive that if work is not started the ground will be forfeited. If true, this is somewhat highhanded considering the amount of work that has been done by the company, while operations just now, until the battery starts, would be unadvisable.