WELLINGTON NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 254, 11 April 1888, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

\\ i LUNt.ro>., this da}. I i M)i ikM'VM) iluit a fiuLhtM batch of applications toi the post ot C hiet Commissioner ol the Now Zealand Railw t \y> \\ ill shot tly b<.torw.tided !>) the A^eiit (ieneial. Amon^ tliOM, arc <t|)[>lic<ition<> tiom holding po-ilion^ on t ho Aniouean iaihvay~, which have been leeeived by fciir Y. \J. i^ell since his hu>b oummumcation on the bubject, u.t.s (le.->|)atclied.

OUR, MINERAL RESOURCE^. Tlio following article appears in the " ll j it_bs " (mi tSiiiuiclay evening .— " We u\e M-'iy ylad to sue th.it on till hands our ny tieipatiou^ ot greatly renewed activity in goldmimng .iL Coromandel, Thames and 'IV 1 Atoha tli^tucts aie being realised. W o heai tilj congiatulato the pcop'.c ot Auckland on tho eneigetie mw^uiei tht % > aio taking to bliiig back piotpeiity to then prownce. E\er} Auckland paper and c\cr> Auckland tek"_;iam, i vhether 11 1 0.111 I'ic-^ Association or Own 'cuncs|)ondcnl, bung- noti s oJ tho introduction ot Hiinc new tnaclnnciy or ftome net pioce^o 01 lapual fi'om Alelboiu nc, or S} dno % >, or London, to win gold fioin then riot 111 1 counti\. one can tell how much gold hc^ hidden m the laogcs iiom (Jo'-o niandel to To Aioha. All wo do know i* l,\mt a nicic tnngo of it iias beun touched antl that cum y whore on that fringo gold has been found. The dilhculty hithertC/ has been that it hi\f> hatdly been in the- quantity to ]»ay for woi king,simplj because 1 he methods woio antiquated ,\m\ not tcicn oilic. This will be changed. Science ih beii ig brought to bcai, and if only Auckland will not rush tho thing, but set hci face against the slightest attempt to Moat fraudulent companies, or expend her resources without movt caiehil Mir\ey an« I tho utmost ])iocaution possible against failuie, \vc feel hatihded she will (md a .sounje of u'oaltli which will teach her to ridicule pi ol^ecl ion and make her wonder she strained so miv h after impossible influ.stries. ''