THE GOLDFIELDS.
) • r [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] i Thames, Monday. ' Saxon.—Two or three pounds of nice picked * stone were obtained to-day from a small [ leader striking into the main body of the r reef, at No. 5 levol. A portion of the reef f will be broken down either to-night or to--1 morrow morning, there being several feet r stripped. 1 MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS. , Trenton.—The contractors have worked 3 five days this week, and have sunk the shaft 1 feet in that time, but they have put iu a no timber since they started. The country in the bottom still continues hard. The manager wired yesterday that D. Williams, r contractor for sinking the shaft had given up •. his contract. A reply was immediately fora warded to employ day wages men pending inv structions. j_ New Fearnought.—There is no change of . any note for the past week ; the country re- > mains exactly of the same nature and dee scription as mentioned in my last report. Good • ■ progress' is being made in extending the drive, which is now in a distance of 107 feet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9255, 8 January 1889, Page 5
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182THE GOLDFIELDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9255, 8 January 1889, Page 5
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