WAITEKAURI.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3997, 20 October 1881, Page 2

WAITEKAURI.

(FBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waitekaubi, October 18,1881. f I have not much news to send you yet, ' as none of the new leases have started-

yet, except the Bonanza. Mr George Wilson has paid an official visit' W the district; and I hope it will be' the means of making some of the.new companies start operations very soon.-. Inl the Waitekauri No. 3, the reef is looking splendid. The contractors are j breaking the reef down, and the stone improves as ' they approach the end of the drive* There is still ten feet of reef to"break .} before they reach the face. The reef at present is wideuing oat, and is now three feet thick, with good gold showing.' The battery ip still pounding away'on staff, r from Butler's tribute, and the stuff now going through the mill is equal inequality, to their last crushing. Heitman and . party had a payable return of 78ozs frojflpt-^, 40 tons. This party have given up thnr-'** tribute section. Messrs Murray, andj " Had ford have pegged out 80 men'i v ground on the west side of the battery'^ The contractors in the Bonanza are still driving the crosscut, but. hare still eleven or twelve feet to go before they reaoh the reef. Men can find employment up. here , readily al 3s 6d per day.