The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 10 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1875.

Thi doubts which have existed as to the disposition of the piece of land reserved from occupation in the Ohinemuri goldfield, and known as Karangahake, are now set at rest. By Proclamation in a Gazette published on the Bth instant, it ig notified by the Hon. Daniel Pollen, holder of the delegated powers under the Groldfields Act of 1866, upon application made to him for that purpose, he Jias authorised "the occupation for Mining Purposes of the said exempted land by iuch person or persons as shall, after due iayesligation, and the hearing of # all persons desiring to be heard therein by the Warden of the said Goldfield, be found by him to be the first or original discoverer or discoverers of gold in the said exempted land, subject to the Begulations for the said Goldfield made and issued by me on the. third day of March instant, in like manner as though the said exempted land had been taken up and held under the said regulations." The several claimants to the right will hare an opportunity of proving their claims to whatever the reserve may contain, and as a great deal of the success of the new field hinges upon the decision in this matter, it is fervently to be hoped th»t the enquiry will take place with the least possible delay. It has been asserted many times that the different claimants have, made discoveries of a character much more encouraging than any yet

disclosed, but that they decline to malre public their discoveries until such: time as the title to the disputed ground has been settled. There are at least three distinct parties who lay claim to the reserve, and each party claims to be first as discoverers of the claim. In the Warden's Court the battle will have to be fought out, and unless the parties come to:: some arrangement a tedious course of litigation will ensue. It would undoubtedly have conduced to the thorough prospecting of the Ohineinuri district had no such case arisen, but under the circumstances it is difficult to see how the matter, could well be got over without having recourse to law. There ate so many cases depending upon the issue of this enquiry that it is difficult to foretell the end. Unless an amalgamation of all the parties can be effected the caie will'be an exceedingly complex one, Affording ample scope for the lawyers, and only to lie decided by the production of a mass of evidence which will necessitate a protracted delay before anything like a decision can be arrived at.