OHINEMURI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 290, 15 August 1888, Page 2

OHINEMURI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Paeroa, Tuesday. A srEciAL meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council Avns convened for noon on Saturday last, for the pui peso of confirming the special order making bye-laws for the regulation of slaughterhouses, etc. As only the Chairman, and Crs Robson and Nash were present, no formal meeting could take place, and it was therefore adjourned. A meeting of tlio Ohineinuri River Board was also to have taken place but in the absence of a quorum this also was adjourned. It \3 understood that the Board will appoint Messrs Nepean Kenny, and W. Tetley, clerk and inspector of Rivers respectively.

Our County Chairman Mr W. G. Nicliolls with other members of the County Council, is arrnnging to form a committee of local mine mnnageis, with a view of sending samples of Ohineinuri ores to the Melbourne Exhibition. The lack of representntion of the Chinemuri mining industry is much to ho deplored and it is hoped that the present arrangement will meet the deficiency. I am very glad to be able to state that in all probability the Wardens Court which has been so badly required at Paeroa, will in all rrobubility sit here in the couise of a few weeks. The County Council have generously agreed to give the Warden the use of the new Count}' Chambers, and as the cost will simply confine itself to the salary of a clerk, and receiver of the Governmene money be congratulated at having filled a long felt deficiency extremely cheaply. As a matter of fact during the last six or eight months at least one third of the cases beard at the Thames Wardens Court have been from Ohinemuri. This has necessitated plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses to leave their work locally, waste two or three clays, and spend two or three pounds each where £20 per annum would, have p-crented such an anomaly.

RETURN FROM JUBILEE ORE. The return from the ore taken Homo by Mr Ed. Kersey Cooper from the Jubilee Claim, Waitekauri, has just boon made known. Mr Cooper took 10 tons packed in barrels to England with him, and sold it at Messrs Johnson and Matheys, Hatton Garden, London, The picked stuff, which was sorted on the Paeroa wharf, and of which there was about Ccwfc, realised at the rate of £80 10s per ton, netfc. About 4 tons fetched £30 per ton, and the balance of the parcel £7 1 2s per ton. The assay, as taken by Messrs Johnson Matheys and Co , was as follows :—: — Lot 1. Gold, 22ozs ldwt : Silver, 4dozs 13dwts. Lot 2. Gold, Bozs ldwt; silver, Bdwts. Lot 3. Gold, Sozs; silver, 6ozs 3dwts. . Mr Cooper intends to ranks an immediate start in developing the Jubilee, and Ins applied for a water right and machine site in connection with the mine. At Waihi Mr D. G. Farmer's contract for the erection of the machinehouse is quite finished. The floors are now being put in. The shaft for the pumping gear is down about 26 fecfc, and is being satisfactorily proceeded with. Owing to the recent "strike, " Mr Wdker is parting with some of his men, and engaging others in their stead, A largo number of Thames men came np yesterday.

Tenders ,iro invited by the Palilic Works Department for Hie erection of n bridge over tiie Wuiknto river. Hoe advt.