OUR MINES.
WAIOTAHI.
The battery and engines have been stopped since last week, and are being overhauled. Men are also at work in the shaft, putting in new timbers where the old ones have rotted. JSew guides for the cages are also boing put in. A start will probably be made in a-little over a week. QUEEN OF BEAUTY. The contractors for sinking are steadily continuing operations, but owing to the large size of the shaft, and the amount of water to contend with, progress is slow. They are down 22 feet below No. 9 flatsheet, leaving 48 feet yet to sink. The stopes on the main reef aljoye No. 9 level continue to- tu*rn out -a considerable amount of crushing diri. Ten head of stamps aro employed on it at the mill", and it is shaping payably. The other ten head are employed on dirt from the stopes on the same reef above No. 7 level; it is shaping for a fair yield. Men are still employed in the Piako shaft taking out the old pipes, rods, &c. GOLD RETJJR§£. Hopeful.—s,Howaejt»d'parfy,'tributers, have banked 7ozs 9dwts gold; the result of a crushing of 4 loads of general dirt at the Herald mill.
West Coast.—A crushing at the Herald battery for Catran and party gave 2ozs 9dwts gold.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4370, 5 January 1883, Page 2
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217OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4370, 5 January 1883, Page 2
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