BARRIER REEFS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 25 January 1901, Page 5

BARRIER REEFS.

|§ The manager reports that at the iimine the stopes are ail looking well, i|but there is nothing new to report. I . YOUNG NEW ZEALAND. ifi Tlie low level is now in 15S feet. At close timbering is reqriired, as rathe ground is dangerous. It will take H another week to get through this la country, alter which much better pro» Bjgresa will it. is hoped be made. || AY Aim. EXTENDED. BJ Some excellent looking- stone from jjsjthe bottom of llie shaft now being fflsunk in the Waihi Extended mine was ||oii view to-day at the ol\iee of Mr D. mi. MacDonnell. The stone Was brought Pto town by Mr A. Wright (one of the. of the company, who has jusfi a visited the property) in order to show P" "the natiu-c of the country now being penetrated. The samples shown are of |?a good description, quartz veins being with the bine sandstone. |j CHELMSFORD. p Some 26 men are at present employ* ied-on the Chelmsi'ord Company's pro-* sjperty at Tairna, and it is hoped thai; tithe, battery will be completed by the |end of February. The water races antt ! drive to connect with No. 2 level tramway are being pushed ahead with all possible speed. At the battery the' Pelton wheel is in position, water pipes a.rei being" laid and two cyanide vats have been finished.