The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1884. Tuhua

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 34, 22 March 1884, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1884. Tuhua

The Wanganui business people are evidently determined that no effort on , their part will be spared to attempt the prospecting for gold in the Tuhua. A company has been formed with a sufficient capital to send out a wellfound party of men to give the country a fair trial. As we notice on the list of promoters the names of some experienced miners and reefers, we have every confidence that, as far as the company is concerned, everything will be fair and above board. The physical obstacles which are to be met by the prospectors are trifling, and the difficulty of obtaining the consent of the Native tribes on whose lands the operations must be carried on may be said to be overcome. The greatest difficulty wiU be to prevent outside parties starting and working in the name of the company. A second difficulty wiR be found in the class of Pakeha Maoris, or Maori Doctors, who will want to pull some of the "plums out of the pie" after the manner of their kind. If the company desires to discover and take up gold bearing country, which they can work in peace and quietness, arrangements should be entered into with Major Kemp, or other person in authority, to keep back all unauthorised persons until the country is proclaimed gold bearing, when proper miners' rights would be issued in a similar mode to that adopted in Auckland on the Thames diggings. Pakeha Maoris, Maori Doctors, and others of that ilk will be difficult to deal with at first, but they will soon lose their influence when miners are actually on the ground. That there is good gold in the Tuhua we have known for many years.