NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4384, 22 January 1883, Page 3

NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL.

The stop.es west of the shaft continue to look well, ami a few pounds of picked stone and specimens are bagged every breaking down.' Since Thursday morning 30 head of stamps have been employed 10 hours per day the company's quartz, and to-day a start was made to work 12 hours per day. MOANATAIRI. The manager reports for last week as follows :—" The contractors, two in number, commenced the crosscut at 80 feet level on Thursday last, price 15s 5d per foot, that being the lowest tender. All Nations', stopes, above 80 feet level, produced 161bs of picked stone during the week. No. 9 footwall lead at the same level will be broken down next week. Tunnel level: The drive on lead, corresponding with the one now being worked by the Don Pedro tributers. has been" extended from boundary 35 feet. A parcel of three tons has been treated from here this week, yielding only 7dwts of ' amalgam. This lead has proved to be patchy with the tributers, so it may with us as we proceed with the drive. Stopos above 132 feet level, Heldt's section, have looked poor bat promising during the week. Morning Star section : The leaders have not shown any material change since my 4gst. Nonpareil, 215 feet level: I think we are pretty well through the old workings again. THere is a good deal of quartz, containing nice mineral for gold, in the face of the drive, which appears to be crushed down from a reef near at hand, The battery is fully employed, 15 head on the company's account, the remainder on hire.—J. G. Vivian."