OUR MINES.
MOANATAIRI.
The manager reports for last week j— " Tunnel level: The drive S.W. of vKopl N.W. cross cut is stopped for the time being, and the two men who Were employed here are taking in a leading stope above same drive; when this work is sufficiently advanced, and the timbers put in, the drive can be resumed again with* out: further hindrances. .No. 2,,, reef at tunnel level continues to show- occasional colors of sold when broken. Heldt's section, 132 feet level: The stopes are producing payable stuff; small parcels of picked stone are at times met with. ..All Nations' stopes, 80 feet level: A ;few pounds of good picked stone have been obtained from here during the week. Nonpareil 215 feet level: The lead has yielded several pounds of picked stone since my last, and it looks well at present. The other parts of the mine are without change of any moment to report.—J. Q. VrvrAN."
CALEDONIAN.
The maoager is novr rising abore'No. 2 level on the footwall specimen leader. The face is now up some distance.and gold has been seep all the way. He has also started to drive northward at No. 1 level on a reef out on the. footwall of the No. 2 reef near the. crosscut Mr. Hicks put in to cut that lode 1 when he first took charge of the mine. This reef he believes to be the Cure No. 5; which strikes somewhat across the other lodes. It in striking towards the No. 2 reef, and the manager expects to have about 100 feet to drive before he comes upon the -junction. In driving the crosscut referred to, a number of mineral veins were passed through, which probably run into this No. 5 reef, and as it is a good looking body of stone, it is likely to make gold before it junctions with No. 2 reef. The point at which it will junction cannot be determined,,bat as it was not met with in driving, it is pro* bably ahead of the stopes worked by the manager some months ago.
ZUBANUI HILL. ' The battery was stopped for a few hour* on Saturday on account of, a breakage in the water-pipe from which the boiler is supplied. The rich return of James and party wastaken from a leader in the Deep Lead section, which they have on tribute. GOLD EKTUBNS. - Moanataibi.—Rowe and party have banked loz 44wts gold. Don Pbdeo.—Kneebone and. party have crushed 7 loads for the return of 7ozi ldwt gold*
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4297, 9 October 1882, Page 2
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422OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4297, 9 October 1882, Page 2
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