MAR1T0T0.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 226, 29 October 1887, Page 2

MARITOTO.

There wag a lively scene here on Monday hist, when the surplus ground of the prospector*' claim was thrown open for public competition. From a veiy early hour in the morning men began to assemble on the ground, and towards noonday there must have been fully fifty poison* present. At 12 noon Mr J. H. Moore fired a gun, which was the pre-arranged signal for the accomplishment of the pegging, a.nd all hands stuck their pegs into the ground HimulUneonsly. The whole affair posued off very quietly, and it is just probable that ihe different parties will amalgamate their respective interests and form one mining company conjointly, thereby avoiding further litigation, which could only lead up to unsatisfactory results for all conceiped. Burns and paity who have n claim south of and next to Mclkuuch 1 aie doing a large amount of prospecting for the purpose of testing their ground. Already they have unearthed a reef avemging 4 feet in tbieknehS by cutting trenches at stated intervals for a distance of four chains aci oss its course and they haveobtained fair prospects of good looking gold at every point of intersection. Next week they will start driving a levol bo as to cut this lode ai a depth of aUout 50ft beneath the surface, and they expect to meet with goodiesults. Further south still Patten and party havo taken up a claim on the same line of reef which they have broken into in various places, v and have everywhere obtained average prospects of the precious metal. The owners of Mclsaacs claim have marked off a water race on Peel's creek, and they have also mado application for a battery site which is situate within easy distance of and can be connected with the mine at a very small cost. The owners of the prospectors mine havo invited tenders for packing 10, tons of ore out to the main road, from whence it will be conveyed to Thames where it will be assayed and dealt with afterwards as che results dictato.