MOANATAIRI EXTENDED.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5039, 7 March 1885, Page 2

MOANATAIRI EXTENDED.

Tho manager yesterday afternoon received instructions to at once proceed with the sinking of the shaft, and preparations are therefore being made t j that end. It is intended to ere.ct a cistern at the present bottom level, all the water from the two drives being turned into it. By this means the, manager.expects to be able to sink to the nest level without being troubled with water, but'if ho finds he cannot do this, a second set of rods will be put in to pump from the bottom to the cistern. Work in the north drive will only be | stopped for a few days while the cistern is being^ut in position. The reef last cut proves to bo 3ft. wide in the floor, its average size being.2-J-ft, Sandstone country is now in the face. •,•■■■ NEW TELEGRAPH. In our last issue this claim was brieflyreferred to, but gome further particulars will no doubt be of interest. _The present proprietors have spent a considerable sum of money in endeavoring to reach a certain point, and sucsess appears to be about to crown their efforts. In-the old days a winze was sunk from the surface and gold was left in tho bottom, the party being drowned out by water. A low level tunuel having been put into , the old Siam shaft, without finding anything payable, the present party decided to push it on under the winze referred to. After driving a long way, the leader was» passed through without being recognised, but afterwards rising was started on it. A little gold was seen when up loft, but above that the quartz did not look so well. After rising 50 feet, or about hall way to the winze, work wm

stopped there, and the men commenced to tokn out a crushing from tho point where gold wag s.^n. About.' six loads of dirt have been broken, and gold has been seen freely, there being on "hand nearly a hundredweight of stone in which gold can be sepn freely, while some pieces are rich enough to be classed as good picked stone. As the Telegraph is the only claim working in the Shellback creek, its opera* tions will be watched with interest, and we hope they will be as successful jisitt, plucky proprietors deserved | HEIGHT SMILE. : manger's latest report states :—l got a leader to-day and cut into it. It ii 4 inches thick where cut, and,if looking very well for gold, and ia in good working country. I will drive on it for two or, three days before breaking it down.', The crosscut is now in 4.o.feet. GOLD EETUBJVrS. Caledonian.—Homo and party have; banked 3ozs lOdwts gold. > Lonehand —Gribble and party's crush - ing gave 30z3 gold. Magnolia.—A crushing for Babe and party, tributers, treated at the Kuranui : Hill battery, yielded 9ozs 2dwts gold. " ' Moanataibi.—Jones and party, trilraters, have finished a crushing for the result of 13ozs Bdwts gold. ' " Sir Waltee Scott (Karangahake).-^ The manager has banked 18ozs 12dirts melted gold. Work in the mine has been stopped. ' '