REEFING INTELLIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 212, 22 February 1872, Page 5

REEFING INTELLIGENCE.

GABRIELS.

The tunnel in the prospecting claim is now in about 50 feet. We notice that 5 sixteenth shares are for sale .in this claim.

In Clayton & Co.'s claim the shaft is down about 45 feet. The workmen have come to a reddish kind of rock, and from indications, expect to strike blue slate in a day or two.'

The Amalgamated Companies during last week made an open cut on the southern boundary of the prospecting claim. They found what they term a "reefy rock" about two feet in thickness. This reef 'has a defined foot and hanging wall, and runs in the direction of the Blue Spur, and is evidently a leader. Good -indications of the proximity of a reef were obtained at the surface, but the quartz ran out, and in trying to find it again they struck the leader above referred to.

Five tons of stone from Mears & Co. Claim, No. 2 Reef, are to be tested at the O.P.Q. Co.'s battery, Waipori.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Citizens Company is convened for Monday evening, at the Masonic Hotel, Lawrence.

WAITAHUNA,

Thirty cwt. of quartz from the reef in Old Identity Gully, " of which considerable hope was entertained," (vide Warden Simpson's report in " Daily Times," Bth inst.), waa crushed at the Table Hill Company's machine last week, and yielded only about two pennyweights of gold. The claims on this reef (Julius and party and Phillips and party) have since been abandoned:

There are at present but two parties working on the Junction Reef — Hansen and party (prospectors), and Watson and party. The former have commenced to drive for the reef at a forty-five feet level; and- expect to cut it this week. The latter have, as yet, but slight indications of the reef in their claim.

The Alexandra Company, have, at a ■new level, cut the , reef, which is about four feet six inches wide, and is, in the words of one of the party, looking well. They are at present engaged in raising stone,- and will commence crushing as as the supply -of- water permits.

The Qcean" View; Company are driving for the reef in their new shaft, which, they have sunk to a depth of seventy feet. The nature of the stuff through which they have to drive, in order to reach the reef, may be judged from the fact that the sinking of the last five feet of the hole occupied nine men for a week.