Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE SATURDAY, FEDRUARY 9, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1713, 9 February 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, FEDRUARY 9, 1895.

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The years 1894-5 bid fair to beat the record all over Australasia in the discovery of new payable goldfields. From Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania alike, we .have been hearirg of phenomenal finds. Qpromandel has rivalled the biggest of these, Waihi for permanent returns has been remarkable, and • the Talisman, as well as other mines in the district, have given good promise. Waiorongomai bids, fair to be as good as any of their. Its- long spell of ill luik was last yaar broken by the Loyalty, which, cf ter some six months dead work, has in the past year returned the sha e wklej-s 'oyer 100 per

cent in dividends. . The man who located this claim is the same who has just discovered the Palace, which promises twice as good returns. In each case he was a long time prospecting, ! and in the last by. himself. This emphasizes Mr Cadman’s remarks about ; the neglect of systematic prospecting in the North as compared with the South Island. Two such discoveries by one man in a little over a twelvemonths would make the fortune of any place but Waiorongomai, which has so long been looked on as the Cinderella of goldfields. Perhaps like that despised little girl she will yet show that as a gold producing field she is second to none of her sisters. Perhaps after all it might be best that local men should pick up the plums, if it were not that any thorough testing of the field would demand large capital which is not available locally. There is nothing, however, to prevent pedple of all classes in the district forming prospecting associations, which will earn help from Government. The shilling or two that the most economical chucks away every week might land him in a good thing if thus invested. Verb. sap.