MAEREWHENUA.

Evening Star, Issue 3031, 6 November 1872, Page 3

MAEREWHENUA.

Wc learn from the Oaniarn 'Hines that the following petition for presentation to the ,Superintendent has been largely signed in the Marewhcnua district : “To his Honor the Superintendent of Otago—- “ The memorial of the undersigned miners and others of the Maerewhenua Goldfield, humbly shewoth that your memorialists, while thanking your Honor for the declaration recently made by you that the application of the Hon, 11. Campbell to purchase a block of 10,000 acres of land on this field, known to be pay ably auriferous, should not bo granted ; and while endorsing to a very great extent the report of Warden Robinson upon the subject, beg, nevertheless, to express to your Honor their firm conviction that even within the area known as Campbell’s original application there ex* ists a large extent of ground of a payable nature. That your memorialists do not desire to let the question rest upon their simple assertion, but respectfully beg that a commission of two or more competent gentlemen may be deputed to visit the ground in order to determine the matter in dispute by absolute prospect; that, pending the report of these gentlemen, no alienation of land in this field be allowed either to Mr Campbell or any other person. That the alienation of auriferous ground cannot fail to be ruinous to the mining interest, unjust to the district, and must eventually prove detrimental to the whole Province. Your memorialists, therefore, pray that as the survey of this ground is being rapidly pushed forward, steps may be taken to have the question at issue set at rest without delay. “ And your, &e.” Wc understand that the prospects of this field are every day improving, and in consequence the miners a’*e going in for improvements. There are several parties at work lengthening and improving their tailraces —a thing much required, as many of them were constructed temporarily. We learn that arrangements arc being made for the cutting in of the Kahanui race, and that the work will probably be proceeded with immediately. It is anticipated that the next washing up will turn out remarkably well. Within the past month a good deal more than 200 ounces of gold have been received in Oamaru ; and as the claims get more opened up in the face of the hills, a much larger yield is expected. The road to the township is also about to be improved, as at a recent meeting of the Road Board it was resolved to expend a considerable sum of the funds in hand on the most necessary portions of the road.