OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3911, 12 July 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

OLD CALEDONIAN. V^t

The manager's weekly report is as follows:—" Since my last there is no improvement to report in drire sonth-melt* on No. 1 reef, No. 3 level. I would adviae the letting of any portion of ground from this level on tribute, if possible; tt ii aff new ground, and if anything was discovered by tributers, it would be very beneficial to the company. No.'!' level": In the drive on No, 1 reef, south-wesT of old crosscut, the reef has improved" in appearance as it ha 9 been ' driven upon. It is fully two feet thick, of alrabbly nature, and heavily charged with good* looking minerals, such as gold is genejNftg found in. Drive northeast.of new,owS>» cut: The No. 2 reef here is also inipro»*4 in looks ; the quartz is likely Io6V\Dg^WBA gold might be found at any br&lSig down. I am still shooting down aboill; two feet of the hanging-wall of. N0,.,2 reef where' driven through. .IJtVig^i^" heavily- charged with heavy mundic and other minerals. No gold has been seen, but it looks encouraging."—T. B. Hicks, i

KURA.NUI HILL.

The manager reports as follows ;—• " 360 feet level: Since starting we havf driven 23 feet, and as there is no sign.of No. 8, or any improvement in the lode, X have again suspended work on this level.' Poverty) Four men are stoping under the beach level. The leader has very much improved, and showed good colonof gold last breaking. Pour, men jufi also stoping and rising above the* fttjiio'h level. Surface workings: Until Friday we have seen no specimens for tore* weeks. On that day, however, we found Slbs of fair stone, and both placet show ' gold in the face, and look very promising. Preparations are being made to Open 'a face on the veins near the beach, itf^ttttC Long Drive and Poverty sections.7'3-ft-butes ; None of our tribute partieis;;»ire f? doing much. I have advertised for ten- r ders, and will let off sections, in. tb« Poverty, Belfast, Kelly's, a^d}als9 in tije^ vacant blocks of the Junction and AllNations.—l am, «Spc., J. W^fjtJfikzn"''" J