OHINEMURI NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1709, 26 January 1895, Page 2

OHINEMURI NOTES.

(By our own Correspondent.)

Paeroa, Thursday. The scow Shamrock arrived from Whangarei last Saturday, bringing over 40,000 feet of timber, totara and kauri, for the railway bridge, and after landing all her cargo on the bank of the river left again yesterday. Mr Albert Moore and Mr P. Mannix are to have charge of the work, of course under the supervision of Mr Thomas Shaw, the engineer in charge of tire, railway works, and the work will be carried out on the co-operative system. It will be another week or so before work on the bridge will be commenced. It is stated that Mr Coote, for many years past the landlord of the Commercial Hotel in Paeroa, is seriously contemplating giving up business and living in Auckland. Both he and Mrs Coote will be very much missed when they do leave, but so far as I can ascertain nothing definite is yet settled. There was a rumour here yesterday that Mr and Mrs Bell, of the Club Hotel, Te Aroha, were thinking of taking the hotel from Mr Coote, but what truth there is in it I cannot tell.

There has been quite a rush of visitors to Waihi, Waitekauri, etc., from Auckland within the last few days. Mr Brett, of the Star, Mr Alfred Kidd, Mr Robinson (the well-known mining reporter of the Herald), and others went through- on of pegging out that has been going-eii, and may be still going on for all I know, is tremendous, and tho local • papers are full of advertisements of applications for licensed holdings, special claims, water-races, and dams. T Next Warden’s Court day will be-ar'l very busy one, judging from the great number of applications already in. Talking of the Warden’s Court, no satisfactory reply was obtained from the Hon. Mr Cadman, during his late visit, as to when the long wahted Court House would be erected here. He said the site for the building was settled beyond all doubt, that is, near the Post Office, and the vote for it had been passed, but he vrould not say when it be commenced. One of the deputation pointed out that Rotorua had a Court-house, and that there was as much work done in the Warden's Court here in one of its fortnightly sittings as there was done in Botorua in a whole twelve months. Mr Cadman retorted that there were other places of just as much importance as Paeroa!

What the Hauraki Tribune calls “ a Belie of Paeroa Ancient History, ” was. unearthed the other day by the carpenters making the alterations in the old Paeroa hall, viz., the parchment which was in the foundation block of the Hall.when first erected. Two experts, one from Paeroa and the other from Devonport, have, I hear, been engaged for sopje days in decipturing this ancient document, and the result of their arduous labors isbeing awaited with breathless interest. I have been told that along with this precious relic there was the sum of one shilling and ninepence half-penny, which the finders very naturally looked upon as a legitimate “find’’and celebrated the discovery in due and ancient form therewith. :

Mr Chas. McLean has pegged out a claim of 100 acres North east of the Junction and the Silverton, Waih l , on. which he believes he has the Waihi reef. In order to make certain of this, Mr Park, of the Thames School o? Mines ana Mr George Wilson, went up on Tuesday along with Mr McLean. If ho. is right, he has succeeded in finding what many bsen in seaich of, in vain, and it will help to make mining matters even mo jy w m ll the y already are. Mr J. W. Walker has just brought up m.a scow, which arrived here this mormrg a lot of maehinary, plant etc. for his Grand and no time will be lost in haj@|l?t carted up to Waihi.