OHINEMUBI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1917, 24 February 1875, Page 2

OHINEMUBI.

(fbom a cobbespondent.) Paeroa, Tuesday.

There are many matters in connection with the doings at Ohinemuri which the "opening" will disclose to be strange; such is the opinion of some who may be supposed to be in a position to form an opinion upon the subject. One thing seems very probable, namely, that some of those laying claim to ground, and fancying at the same time that they are in such claim antagonistic to the claims of others, will discover that they have had in their" " minds' eye "" quite "a separate and distinct find. There is nothing improbable in this, and should it prove to be the case, it will be a matter for congratulation, inasmuch as the serious complications anticipated will, in some measure, at all events, not be there. This idea might receive confirmation from,the fact that the Kme of reef upon which the supposed rich leaders have been discovered is said ;to extend five miles along the range. Supposing this to be the case the opinion hazarded has some grounds to be recognised as a right one. Such an extent of reef would afford room for hundreds of miners, and a mistake as to the immediate geographical position of a piece of ground in so large a range of country might easily be made, the more so when it is' recollected that each party has kept to itself the precise position in which its ground is situated. From a trial crushing made a short while since of stone from a lode on the line of reef at Ohinemuri, a return equalling somewhere abodt lOO'ozs. to" the tori was obtained. Obtained, I repeat, because the information is from a source most reliable. If this may be taken as an example of what the lode in - this particular instance is "likely to bear, the parties interested are decidedly lucky. But such a find has a more comprehensive meaning than the fortune of a few men. It means an mdi,- , cation of the country's worth as a goldI field. Where one rich find is made it is [ usually considered that more is to be found fprjsearching. Were such not the case, prospecting would not be followed up by goldseekers .with such zeal as it is in all parts of ithe< worlds i The gold * atOhinemuri, however (so far as in its present half-unveiled state it is permitted us to know) has not been discovered in one or tyro places only, but has been brought to light in many—even outside the boundary of the goldfield there are one or two reefs known to be payable. So that I think little; fear heed be ehter-V tairied as to the prosperity which the opening o£ Ohinemuri as a goldfield will bring.