MAEREWHENUA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 61, 1 April 1870, Page 3

MAEREWHENUA.

Warden attended as usual on the 22nd ult. There were no Court cases. "A numher of appiicatibns'we're entertained, among which the following were GTeig and others; water race, W. G f ißees°; dam,'O'Donnell and another; extension of Enterprise race,; per' J: iEvans ; tail race, Cooper and others; protection for: quartz claim, Craig -and others; "protection, P. Aitcheson.

: _ ;A. number of tenders six iii all, were piiti in for the packing; and Erection of guide posts on the. track from Kennedy 's hut to ; . the Maerewhenua . -Pass. The Warden was unable to; accept;any at the time, as he had not then -i : eceived authority from the ferovierament for the has received the authority since his return; and that- the; tender of .Browithas• been accepted. • '■./.'■ ,-. The Warden sat again next day, and the business . was of unimportant rcharacter." ' ' '.";' "."'.'"','.". '.'\.-%"" '"''"'" ".

;: We.understahd that'the 'population at the Maerewhenua Diggings has ra- : ther diminished than '■> increased within .% last mbntn or tw ? This.is attributable to temporary employment with the farmers and station owiiers. ; The number of claims and races held appears..to be on ■the increase. near! ifcha Otekaike is beingJyeyy Th ere are now ; three . claims at , work beside the prospectdrs ? ,.;and ihe men are:; erecting substantial 'huts in the ; vicinity of their claims'. None 'of the -large races have yet been.completed so : to give' a'supplt of water to sluicefs, •which in a .great, measure accounts for the dullness observable' throughout the 'diggings, with the exception of the quartz mining.