TE AROHA GOLDFIELD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2125, 15 December 1880, Page 3

TE AROHA GOLDFIELD.

Tpbb press association special WTEB.I GRAHAMBTOWN, December 14. The following is Warden Kenriok’s first report on the Te Aroha goldfields. After stating the circumstances of the opening, he says that the arrangement previously made enabled him to decide upon the ground at once the question re pegging out on the first day. He found that about sixty men’s ground was disputed by three hundred men, all having equal rights, but both time and patience, together with the good sense of the disputants, enabled him to settle disputes out of Court. Twenty Natives took out miners’ rights on the day of the opening. With respect to the prospects of the field, the Warden says :—“ My opinion, produced on an examination made by myself and Mr Wilson, under-viewer of mines at the Thames, of some thirty claims, is that a permanent goldfield has been opened that will prove to bo of very large extent, and not confined within the present boundaries. I have spoken with more than eighty miners, and all coincide with me In thinking the indications most promising. The leader in the prospectors’ claim continues to show well, and evidenced to twentytwo inches in solid ground. The township has been laid off on a piece of ground owned by a Native chief, and is well situated as a mining centre, being accessible by river and road. In conclusion, I would again express theopinion I have formed that in Te Aroha district we have a valuable permanent geld field, but one that requires time and money and a good deal of prospecting to develop fully. The danger to be guarded against is over speculation. With bona fide work the future of the district is assured. I wonld now point out the necessity of warning men thinking of coming to the district that there is bnt little demand at present for labor ; that it requires both time and money to develope the present discoveries, and that at present there appears no prospect of an alluvial field being fonnd.”