OHINEMURI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1723, 20 March 1895, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

’ (By out. own. Cori’espondent.).

' Paeiroay Tuesday. Mining matters in t&g Karangahake,: Waihi, and >.(xtij.6r .mines iu this district are looking first-class, and • the "managers of the various mining' eomr panies are haring all work carried opt in a systematic manner. It is a "good thing :-that" dur ; : Oounty Councillors have-taken tithe by. the forelock: in the way 'df having the I'oads in the county metalled, etc;, ‘ otherwise when the winter set in it would be almost impossible "for-, tham'sters to ply to and from the-districts.

Mr Price is erecting a battery for the Talisman. Cohipahy' ,at Earangahake. - :

The number of waggons, etc. that are fQ.b.e -xitet- on the-rpad going to and from Karangahake, Waihi, etc., is demonstrative of tho,go-aliead state of the/place at present. 1 \ •,% ' ?:• ■ To sho'w how Paerda is going ahead, I .may ,state, that , Messrs Cassrels "and (Bennett : sold’ last (week a'{freehold section of 30ft, frontage on Norriian-by-roadj next to chemist, for £3OO (so it is said) to Hallenstein Bros., oFtheN.Z. Clothing Pactory, who intend erecting premises thereOn and.ppening up a branch here at'once. During last week, :in ,6, days,- no less that 750 telegrams were sent and received/at the Paeroa (Post office, 115 of which passed through the office on Thursday alone. ' ThefSteafnen Erin recently*landed some f'£;ooG feet kauri’timber from the Shortland Mill, and about 7,000 feet kahikatea from Bagnall’s, all consigned te Mr James McAndrew. . That gentleman also received, .from, the latter mill, 10,000 feet'kahikatea, per Mahiku.l > ■

The return for the past mouth from the (x.M. Company for 2130 tons had ptbduced ‘£7so 8 11 s “7d, and the Cassell Cold Extracting Company, forth© .fsfimp period, -have (banked, £990 for 14'40 tons of tailings'. • •;