VICTORIA.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 1, 19 April 1878, Page 2

VICTORIA.

In nooordunoo with tho statemont mido in my last report I hawo ma.lo it ray business to visit tho mitio for tho purpose of burning tho oxaot nature of tho now diaoovory. Without wishing to mystify sharoholdors with a long dosoription of tunnols and shafts and .turntable** »nd orossdriveA, it may bo moroly stated tli.it tho rooont discover hiis boon maifc in an 1 intermediate lovpl,. sooiotbihg lilio ono hundred foot flbovd- tlio lrtwor fiitinol.; | From tho appolahincb of working it woald* ( oortnin'y ooem.that when tho tunnol was originally driven/ it wan driven on stono for a short distanoo, when tho lode was i suddenly lost,. and it now appears that tho ! drivo was- oxtonded somo distance and: constructed on a onurso almost parallel with tho roof.. The stono ban now* been piokod up at tho flido of tho* drive, and iwa» about nine inches when flnt mot with, it has boon drivon on for thirty loot and has increased to two foot. Tho stono taken thprofrdm is Iving nt) tin' tunnol tnout'',.nhows vory f. Ib gold and in critic - pally antimony stoiie, Thero is, howovor. room for itnprov'ciiymt in cho solidit and focrn of thcJMft md wlvoti n) littlo maro work lias boon fdono a move dufimito |Opiuion may bo given of tho probublu uultio of this now find. i