OHINEMURI GOLDFIELDS.

Te Aroha News, Issue 4, 30 June 1883, Page 2

OHINEMURI GOLDFIELDS.

Karangahaka. — This district should soon show ,tf) tho front m a gold producer, 'as; the battery, hoppora, nnd all connections! with the mine, excepting the wire ,truiu 7 .

which only wants stretching and making fast, aie complete. It is intended to make a start about the middle of this week, when it is to be hoped a new era of prosperity will dawn on this long neglected •district The Hauraki mine, with which the battery is connected, is now well opened up, and Mr P. Henson, the manager, will have do trouble in keeping the fifteen stamps going on superior grade quartz. In the Golden Crown they are still driving on the reef, which is over four feet wide and shows gold every breaking down. In the Hidden Treasure Goldmining Company's ground, which includes the Martha, the manager, best known as Micky te Hira, is taking steps towards unearthing some of the treasure which this ground undoubtedly contains. He has opened up the reef or reefs in several places at long distances apart. In every place the show of gold is very good and promises to yield satisfactory returns. The sooner this company, as well as the Crown, make arrangements for crushing power the better for themselves and the j district That indefatigable prospector, Jimmy Liddell, has dropped on to another good thing on the top of the steep spur known as the Tokanie, situate on the opposite side of the river to Karangahaka proper. The ground was originally called the Christmas-box, but very little work was dono on it till Mr Liddell took it in hand, and in a short tune succeeded in nncovering a splendid looking reef four feet thick, showing gold freely in the «tone, and on being pounded leaves a very promising prospect in the dish. As a consequence pegging off has been the order of the day to such an extent that one would fancy that your present neighbour, Long Drive Walker, had been about again. Owhbroa.— -This busy little spot is as busy as ever, the fifteen-stamper battery being just able to reduce the output of quartz from the different mines The Smile of Fortune is looking | quite up to its usual standard, and turning out plenty of more than payable stuff to keep ten of the stamps going, the other five being employed by the different tribute parties in the Smile and Radical. Waihi.— 'j is district, notwithstanding the many disparaging opinions passed about it, looks as if it was going to assert its right to be called a goldfield after all, *8 the late crushing of 300 tons taken from all paifc? of the mine yielding over 7dwts to the ton, this is considered a good payable return, the gold being worth £3 per ounce, and the reef an immense size and easily worked. The manager, who by-the way is an old esteemed identity of Te Aroka, has got the ground well opened tip and finds no trouble in j "keeping the 20 stampers steadily at work. The battery since getting the overhaul at the hands of Mr E. M. Corbett is working splendidly, the imported American turbine {LeffelPs Patent) being a gem in its Sine.

Waitekattri. — This district is coming to the front again, HolHs and party having •succeeded in picking up the rich run of gold worked with such success by Butler and party. They have sunk a -winze about 40 feet carrying gold all the •way, a nice parcel of picked stone being :got in that distance. It is hard to say -what extent of a block there may be, but 3t looks well at present This party deserve all their good fortune, for they Ihave stuck to Waitekauri through all its vicissitudes. Another rich find is reported from the old Just in Time ground, the -discoverers being Messrs Huntly and Skene, two persevering prospectors. This ground caused some sensation about two years ago from a rich patch of specimens *ound in it, but the then shareholders went in more for working the sharemarket than the mine, and consequently when mining matters got dull it was abandoned. I believe in the present hands it will get a lair show and may turn out grand, as the ground is the source of the creek known -as tne Scotians, from which most of the loose gold and rich specimens found in the creek are supposed to have come. The present find is in a leader from four to nix inches thick, and is said to be very rich.