WAIORONGOMAI.
This Day. It has been raining hard nearly all day.
Some Waiorongomai miners, no doubt feeling aggrieved that they were not invited to last night's banquet, bad an opposition one in Lawless' HoteL
There will probably be an interim cleaning up at the battery just before Christmas.
The New Find has now 15 head employed, the extra five head used by the Premier lately having been taken by them to*day.
Twelve extra berdans are to be added to Ihe battery, making a total of 24.
The tailings plant about to be erected by the Battery Company will be situated some 200 yards below the mill, the waste water from which will be used to drive it. Plans are now being prepared for the plant, which is to consist of 80 berdans, and the tailings will be run straight down from the mill into pits in the new plant.
The Lucky Hit claim has ten tons of a trial parcel out, to be crushed here if possible, if not it will be sent to the Thames.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4657, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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176WAIORONGOMAI. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4657, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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