OUR GOLDFIELDS
(BY TELEGRAPH—OWN COREESrOKDENT.)
THAMES,.this day. New Prince Imperial.—Crushing.is proceeding at the battery on quartz from the Company's mine, but up to the present it is not shaping very well. There are 26 loads of quartz to be put through. Saxon.—There is a nice class of Bandstone in the crosscut; at No. 5 level. The chamber has been finished, and the drive is now in full swing. The reef should be to hand in another 40ft, bub there is about 500 ft to drive to connecb with the winze on the same reef from Ho. * level. Although very little picked stone « beingobtained,colours of gold are invariably seen when breaking down the reef m the stopes of Nos. 4 and 3 levels, and the quartz is shaping fairly at the batteries. h {i j. TKENTON.-The lowest tender received for sinking the shaft a further depth of IN feet was that ofH. Woodhanis, at £ 2 17« lid. . '
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1888, Page 4
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