OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4918, 14 October 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

QUEEN OP BEAUTY. Late yesterday afternoon the manager received a telegram announcing that the tender of Bice and party, at £9 5s par foot, had been accepted for sinking the shaft from No. 10 to No. 11 level. The party will probably start work to^morrow. The other tenders were—T. James, £9 7s 6d ; T. Williams, £9 15s ; and E. Noonan, £11 ss. The manager telegraphed this moping that the pumps were working splendidly, and had during the night drained 600 ft. of drives; No. 9 was then dry, and the men were connecting the bottom buckets. CAMBBIA. The winze on the hangingwall reef, below the 230 ft level, was started to day. It will be sunk immediately eastward of the crosscut. la the east drive the country has been of a soft and heady nature, and the reef a mere formation, but a better class of sandstone is now coming in, and the lode may therefore be expected to become solid again shortly. In the west drive the reef continues a good solid body of stone, showing gold when broken down. Stamping at the Queen of Beauty battery is finished, and retorting will take place to-morrow. DARWItf. - The directors having decided to continue the crosscut to pick up the Cambria reef, the manager will start- the work as soon as he can get it surveyed. The distance to drive should only be about 30ffc., and a3 the Cambria west drive is within 40ft. of where the reef will ba cut, the proapeots of getting payable dirt arc good. TARARU EXTENDED. The manager, Mr J. B. Steedman, today banked 22ozs sdwts of gold, being the result of a crushing of 80 ton 3 from the Old Sunbeam reef. The yield is payable,the expenses of breaking and crushing being light. The reef is 6ft. wide, but the whole of it is not solid quartz. GOLD RETURNS. Lonehand. —Johnston and party hare banked 170z9. ldwt. gold. Reuben Pau3. —Gentles and party, tributers, have crushed four loads of general dirt, and some picked stoae, for 44ozs retorted gold.