TOKOMAIRIRO. PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 179, 12 June 1862, Page 5

TOKOMAIRIRO. PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Tokomairiro, June 9, 1562.

Why is not the Woolshcd proclaimed a goldfield is a question frequently asked, and seldom answered. The necessity for its being so must be apparent to all, and as the diggers there at present possess no legal right to their claims, and cannot, therefore invoke the protection of the law against jumping, it is much to their credit that no serious disturbance has taken place.- This state of affvirs cannot, however, last long, and if the government do not at once proclaim it a goldfield, and station a police force there, they will have to answer for very serious consequences. Even how affairs are in great confusion there, and I believe that the statement made in the Council by the lion, member for the Western District (Mr. Cargill,) as to the jpresent condition of the Woolshed, was not at all exaggerated, although it met the indignant denial of one of the representatives of this District. The reason of this moral and social deterioration is, that a large number of " roughs" are flocking clown to the more genial climate ofthe Woolshed, now that the bad weather has rendered the richer fields uncomfortable, to say the least of it.

The discovery of quicksilver in this neighborhood is, I believer a fact. I intend shortly to visit the supposed mine when I will be able to furnish you with full particulars. The township of Milton is rapidly assuming a business appearance, and many of the inhabitants of the place recal the time when Dunedin was not any larger. The reminiscenses thus conjured up opening a pleasant vista, through which thc-y see a large city with idl its busy life ia their midst ,and more pleasant still/a. censiderable portion of their farms turned into building ground, and realizing fabulous prices. Already iand fronting the main road near the township is worth about £80 or £100 per acre. Indfeed, some of the qurter acre (sections brought upwards of £4Q each at ft late sale. " . .