to an island of quartz, surrounded by a sea of Scrip, by which, at one time, it was well-nigh overwhelmed. - I do believe it would be a wise act in the interest of the Digger, to open up the Ohinemuri District at present; and to elucidate. - If I own a farm of say 1000 acres, and having only capital enough to cultivate 50 acres, attempt to bring the whole under crop, the consequence inevitably is, that I lose the little capital I have, and derive no benefit from it. So it is with reference to Ohinemuri. The Thames, as far as yet accessible to labour is a sufficiently large farm for all the capital and all the labour which we can bring to bear on it at present. New ''rushes'' on Gold Fields, as a rule, are not advantageous to the digger or the State. I have known men by thousands, on the bare ipse dixit of some enthusiast, or what is worse, on the interested assertion of some chevalier d'industrie, leave profitable employment and good claims on a well-established Fiald, to run after a myth; and when such has been the case, many really good Fields have suffered a depression in consequence; from which it has taken, in some cases, years to recover; and in other cases, there has been no recovery at all. I as convinced that if this view of the case were properly impressed on the minds of the inhabitants of the Thames, we should hear little more about the for the immediate opening up of Ohinmuri.