THE MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 7 May 1874, Page 2

THE MOANATAIRI.

mam Moanataim^rft^Rfay r to d t^e M^a.- :- tairi Company's old engine shaft is being pushed ahead with all. possible speed. A- • funnel is being constructed to carry the. £he tramway in to the shaft "Olr'the s^a'm^r level, so that any-stuff |hat .may be sent from up-countr^r |laim| cai^ :be trucked to the Moana'tai'ri ftew Battery: Th'e^ew. branch of the Mo&n&tais(T^nf]m^iaflii; very wise arrangemesnt/'and has'in a measure done away with the doubt that some thinking people had as to the availability of the Moanatairi Company's really splended^nejflri batteryffprl any! other purpose.£than;-.crushing- the:, stuff from their own mine, the feeding' plat of } <;he battery being so high that nothing { donld^e r^|e4^to,^:^P™y^'^™ e%"9if);'' theC'flat.i .<Tneiar£angements«.nbw being made will enable all mines above the Company's own claim to crusb at the new bjattery, with,thi,s, adVantage to the .stuff sent to 'if-^-i't "will be treated with perfectly clean water, that sine qua non that. should be .before., every r mine .manager's dyes. • W^ We'QoVry* t'6 f nea^; 'that^Mif firm. Howe is relinquishing the manager, ibent of the Moanatairi mine, but He does afnpfciJliintend r:rJeavingY;ithe Thames. The Moanatairi Company is, so far as the stamps are concerned, idle, but stuff is being sent down from the mine which is, expected to yieldf rom twib to thr^e o|inces|to|theUon, and in the * mine manager's opinion "will p^ay the company quite as well as sending down large lots of stuff whose product" would only pull down in costs the gold that the smaller parcela?-w;puld ,y|eldi 0n Monday the Whau starttMu»»ittg ajfc the Moanatairi. The Whau stuff ig not the cleanest on the Thames, so far as base nietals are^^^cpnc,erned K and| ( in jr pur l humble, ; opinion^salt ahd-ciean water is just what