THE CURE.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1727, 16 July 1874, Page 2

THE CURE.

.._, CTJRE, I went over'tbe above mine yesterday, more particularly that part of it in which, the lode so closely resembling the Manukau stone isbeing worked on. Although the leader is holding its own pretty stoutly it has not thickened so much as I thought; it would do, neither is the country so settled as I could have wished to see it;; : still the vein gives nearly a foot of crushing" stuff, which is being saved for the mill. It was, rumored yesterday that gold had been struck in the Cure Company's ground. So far this is true; a parcel of gold-bearing stone was taken .put,of;9 leader, ..about three inches thick running almost parallel with its stouter neighbour, and will eventually strike into it,, but^the country ia so unsettled that it is "impossible to conjecture how long it will keep its course. I had, .understood that the workings in-the' Cure on the reef similar in appearance to the Manukau was very much shorter than it appears it now is; 80 feet Will' Hardly 'cover the distance between the workings in the two claims, and from the undefined character of the '■ 'walls, and the topsy turvey kind of countrj the lode is in—and looking also at the distance that has to be driven to where the Manukau workings are now being carried on—the black or strong leader muit improve in strength, to hold out for so many feet. ; , . . • . .