OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4731, 6 March 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

■NEW PKINCE IMPERIAL. The No. 1 reef was broken down to day in the eastern drive at No. 3 level; it is quite 3 feet wide, and showed strong dabs and streaks of gold freely, a few pounds of stone being picked out. DEEP LEVE,L CEOSS. The crosaleader in the southern drive at the 640 ft. level was again broken down to-day; it is from 3to 4 inches wide, and showed colors of gold through the quartz. NEW MANUKATT. The manager last evening secured a few pounds more of picked stone from the hangingwall branch of No. 2 reef. Old workings have been discovered, the leader carrying the gold running into them, but as they are filled up the manager is not sure yet whether it is the intermediate level,"or what is known as Hart's riso he has broken into. The men have been removed from the stopes, and last night com menced to drive seaward on the hangingwall portion of No. 2 reef at the point where gold was first obtained, about 15 feet above the Crown 100 ft. level, BEUBEN PARE, Sloping is proceeding on the reef in which the gold was found a few weeks back. Only the block between the two breaks is being taken out. This is 15ft long in the stope now in progress, but the second break underlying towards the first, it increases in length upwards. The reef is about 13 inches wide, and has shown, gold each time it has beeu taken down, ]

A trial crushing will be pat through next week. A crosscut has also been commenced on the No. 1 break, to pick up a specimen leader, formerly successfully worked above by tributers, which should not be more than 30ft distant. DAEWIN. According to Mr Bayldon's survey, the shaft should soon touch the hangingwall, of the Waiotahi main reef. He estimated that it would be about 50ft below the flatsheet, and that distance has now been sunk. The country is very favorable for gold, but no quartz has yet made its appearance. . GOLD BETUKNS. City of Manchesteb.—Scott and party, proprietors, to-day banked sozs 4dwts gold. 1