Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895. COGITATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1771, 18 September 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895. COGITATION.

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Fob several months past the- movements > of; the ro,asl making parties ■'. % ; - employed; in .consfcructing ! Thotnpson’s Tfrack Track into a coach road,, connecting 'Te Aroha and Tauranga, have been watched;. -with close, and increasing interest, until last many have arrived at the conclusion that the powers that be do not intend to push oh the aay than they can • possibly. liel|>. Thi§ idea has . gained currency' froth-the fact that the men have not been employed regularly for some months. At one time they, were only allowed to work five days , per week, and at another discliarged altogether, then taken on again,- and now maDy are off again.. Surely, if the Government do intend to complete the w >rkas economi* cally a’sppssible they-: wbuld have'acted in ajmore business like way aiid not in such a shiftless manner. We understand that no blame is attached to the Engineer.in charge of the work, who is only acting under instructions .received from' heasL : .quarters. ; : RTow that Te Puke has been proclaimed a goldfield, ' and the boundaries of this great Hanraki district extended,' the interests of the settlements oh both sides of the range are in comnion and must ipadito;. increaßed; traffic, and furnishes another; argument proving the 'urgency of the work. The Piako County Council ahd the Te Aroha Town Board at their recent meetings had the matter under consideration, and in. both instances it was resolved to write to the Hon. CadmaA urging him' ;to have .; a S.'y.Bßccient sum placed on the Estimates -to complete the. formation. If. the pre*' i sent sumjner is . alio weet to pass >w thout dhe: WQrk being- completed it will * cost. a large sum to repair the present mation as in the past. We sincerely hope that the Hon. Cadtnau has not been carried away by his devotion to mines and railways to such an extent as to cause him to forget that he was elected to his present position in the House by the electors of this end of the Waikato on the strength of his promise of a coach road to Tauranga. # - # . * . ■■■'• ’ *-;

Mattors in connection with local miniug are not'exactly in a forward state, despite the fact .Ouk-Mines, that the country is zons of Te Aroha and by any means accustomed to running the pace fast, they get out of vb*path ! two early. The spirit, and spfiak>: ofc folks is dormant rather than: lively, and unless some new-comer with plenty of go comes along the goldfield hereabouts Stands a chance of getting lefh behind to pejislp'We certainly liave .had a:litfcle .'spurt—a spasmodic spurt—and wb have had a •little flatness now and again. This is the feature of local goldming business, all along. As we have any amount Of ''gpldrbearing" reefs, and syndicates to father. them, do not let ' us "be so • inert and spiritless as to stand a chance of loaifig'the -lot whenthe boom Subsides. * >We have some excellent properties but we "need the introduction of outside capital to develop their hidden treaspre.^v. v r I;*? •'.<> " .-jb V ripie for so*t of action on tlie ' parjt of ipctii pyadi- ■' •• 'v•."''cates. "' 'Action No Moke Delay, immediate and decisive. For many months now our citizen’s;, have been doling out monthly calls to- keep the mine, in trim and to the interest of shareholders from flagging. All this goes merrily dn while.' claims', by the gross are floated by our neighbors tother side of the hill. . . While they in many instances'float -bur the four pegs, or float in anticipation of getting a reef somewhere beneath 'the* surface, here we are with magnificent reefs, working like trojans to open .out the ..mino. \Ye have done the prospecting, the discovery- has been made,< the tunnelling; has.- been undertaken at largo ': expense, • the ground secured, the' survey and all the otentera comnloted. and yet we are pegging away getting: the dirty •■vork finished for the capita * .** to O ty ns a visit. This is not the the us n 1 u’oeedure of up-to date mining, an '

we re-iterate. how that we have bona {/ide mines that the time for ‘ floating’ has arrived.

Perhaps we are not too late to float our local mines... Theye pre certainly : r- some which would/go What Mines off with a hum if in

to float, k :• expert .hands, and we are sabgunihe Ihftt mines like the Loyalty, Cadman, Golden Crown, the Hot Springs, Star : lit-Dell, are well worth the consideration of investors. These mines have brea well opened up, contain good gold-bearing reefs, and are second to mons of the dozens of others floa el in •Auckland recently. The immediate floatation of Iwo of these mines fiAs been decided on, and, .we ale glad a start is made, but? it must be followed up to the end. Given the successfulfloating of local mines then they yrill be worked, and our prosperity f so anxiously looked for will be assured.