JUNO.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9616, 19 April 1900, Page 4

JUNO.

Tributers in this Knaotunu property obtained the excellent yield of £457 worth of gold from 1J tons of ore. ' IMPERIAL. The No. 2 reef south shows considerable improvement, and measures fully eighteen inches in width, while it is encased in a splendid class of country. WAIHI EXTENDED. Owinn- to the hardness of the quartz boring°has been slow. For the last two feet the quartz w.as .of a dark na^ ture and especially'hard. , Only an average of six inchess per day can be bored. The .manager considers it is proved beyond doubt that ' the bore in penetrating a compact body o'] quartz, and he is of opinion it is tin I Marthai system of reefs. The bore is down 313 feet. ' - TAIRUA BROKEN HILLS. The winze from No 3 level to- the new low level has been sunk a further distance of 7 feet, making ?. total depth' attained of 24 feet. The ore coming to grass is of a good quality, showing free gold, and giveF good dish-prospects. The new low level is now in 135 feet and the country being penetrated is everything that could be desired, being a nice sandstone formation. The cyanide plant is being • pushed on with four vat bottoms being now in position.

I NEW WHAU. The manager (Mr Jas. Jobe) reports on, the week's work, under Mon^ day's da.te: "The whole of the work connected with securing good ventilation has been completed, and there is sufficient air! now passing through the eastern, or 1 new crosscut, to carry on any work that may be necessary at any time above the No. 1 or intermediate level. To bring in this air about 35 feet of driving had to be accomplished through .light country., while a good deal ofj timbering-had also to be done, and I am pleased to be able to say that this 1 valuablepiece of worlc was done at ai..trifling cost; Stripping operations on the Sons of Freedom, reef in the rise above ■■ the" No. lf-level have been car: ried on; ma more westward direction from the rise during the week. Or Friday and Saturday last the stripped portion of the reef here was broken down and strong blotches of gold j were freely seen in the quartz, and J! must say if ia very gratifying indeed to know that the lode isl also carrying gold in this direction. I have again made a start to strip the reef here. As it has now been proved that the gold ia making in this direction. I have put the men that have recently been engaged at the? work of securing good ventilation to lengthen the rise westward to enable stopinp operations to be carried on, and they have so far made very good progress with this work. There is a block' 1 of' ground here (already timbered) 60f( ftn length;, in which stoping operations can be carried on after the rise is extended 20ft without- any further trouble. In consequence of the men. being engaged in the rise I will be unable to start extending the drive on the line of the reef for a time yet."