AN OLD THAMESITE IN INDI.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 January 1884, Page 7

AN OLD THAMESITE IN INDI .

Many of onr readers, reading both here 1 and attliii Tiiauies, will be glad to learn that news lias been receive. I concerning Mr J. 11. Wnite, better known by his soubriquet of " Hookey," erstwhile u popular sharebroker .'it the Thames. After leaving New Zealand, White went to the old country, ainl was engaged in a m an u factoring business there for two yours. About April, 18H2, he went to India under an engagem-nt to look after two crushing batteries on tint Wynaad gui Ifield. They, however, require.! little attentioiyas one 20-head m.icliine that •was said to be ready for hint when he left London, was not .roperly ready in December last. Mr Wnitc is of opini >n that there is no gold \vort : i a cent in that part of India, and notwithstanding tht\t. the poor English siiare.iolders s»iuin to have been fleeced uiiin.»rcii'ul!y. Mine managers — many of tuein inexporienyed old fogies — were in receipt of from to £'li){)i) )»("•!• iiiiMiim s-duries. but Wmte remarks rejroiluily Uiufc

most of the. ftili.' was t>ff the ginKer"oroad before he tyot thei\>.'* It is osti<nutH lhaf fn'ly five millions'nf English 1 capital whs thrown awtfy on this worthio^.s yfollfield, solely on the report of theorising scientists, and the traditions of the natives that in times gone passed immense deposits of gold had been discovered there. The company >Wh!fce was connected with have spent £120,000, and have not yet obtained 50-ounces of gold. The biggest yield he had •weragod 10 jrrains per ton, nnd there is no quartz in Wynaad that will yield mare tlian lilwt to l^ilwts per ton. The district is characterised as beintf very dull, and a white woman is not seen for months. At the date of writing (December ( ,)th last) M> White was about to leave India For England, and would probably go From thence to California to have a look at a quartz reef there.