NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL.
The specimen stone obtained yesterday came'from near the floor of the drive, and some good pieces were, picked oat of the floor. Gold was left showing in the face, where the reef is over 2ft thick. The general characteristics of the atone are very similar to that obtained inthewinse, and this is one reoson why the msnager thinks it a continuation of the same run, though if that is the case it is lying very flat, and has not dipped more than 10 feet in 30. The gold in some of the pieces is very coarse and nuggetty, but in most of ,_ them it is as if ' the stone had>eeithickTy ''. peppered with it.- All through the quartz carries a large amount of ruby silrer, and some pieces Jpok ' as. if" ..they bad .been painted with it. ~ Eastward the drive is in fully 80ft, and gold is showing in the face. A few pickedfstone generally come, to hand when breaking, dojrs. ln> breaking down to day a farther parget of about 301bs of nice picked stone was bagged from the western drive. Gold was left showing in the floor, bjit none is visible in the face. , . .... GOLD BETI^RNj?.7 ~' *' , Hape Cheek.—Greenville (jjanr.)'*nd party have banked 7ozs gold. Moanataibi.—Moyle and party have completed a crushing at the company's, mill for the return of 6ozs 13dwts gold/
Smile of Fobtjjne (OwbirQa).-^Far-mer and Sims, tributers, hare treated a parcel of 20 tons,for the, yield of 33ozs 12dwtsgold.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4292, 3 October 1882, Page 2
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245NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4292, 3 October 1882, Page 2
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