OHINEMURI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1936, 18 March 1875, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

By Pigeon Express.

(fboh a cobbespondent.)

, , Mackaytown, .- U a.m., Thursday, March 18tE. A large number of excursionists arrived at Paeroa yesterday, and many of them found their way up here, and did .honor to St. Patrick's Day, but, on the whole, I never saw such a quiet 17th March in my life. -. . . ,-, For amusement some wag or other got a coat, stuck it on a, stick', and wrote on the back of it—" The latest discovery of Long Tom's coat." ' The joke caused many a.laugh. . Some one in Mackay.town. J .b,asL laid Soison about, and already five dogs,have ied from the effects of their dosing.' Two of these animals, I hear, were valuable dogs. Enquiry has been made by the police, but no clue has been discovered to the offending party. ,■ r . ■ ,• A large meeting of nearly all'the Natives of the district was held yesterday at Te Moananui's to settle about the £500' bonus promised to 5 them on the v opening of the field. Mackay squared up with them, but I have not been able to find out particulars of the distribution. Mr Mackay yesterday showed gold in stone that came out of ground at OhinemurL . '_ ~ .-'...'.; 7

I am also informed that good gold was' taken out of a reef on'the left> Hand' side of. the river and the opposite side to ,the Prospectors/- (t; ' ■ : -* . A great many men. went, put this morning to prospect and work ttieir ground! , ( A strong party of men have been put i:6n to make the Wad good from here to Paeroa in view of the coming bad weather* which, I Mink, will make this place as bad as ever SJbortland- was, in the early days. .Encouraging accounts, are^in. from the gum fields.butithe. track to the scene of the;digging is in* a;?tad state. .. ! I have been speaking to Mr Chapman of the Thames,.and he told me they have five drives-in different parts of their claim. Two of these drives'arel being' put in Jto intersect the prospectors' reef, and one of them is in 25 feet. - ' ; The name of the claim the golden stone is from is the Banyan. The bakers are beginning to growl at not being able to sell more bread, on account of to many going back to the Thames. , . ?-. .( ; ■• ; ' Several plaints have been laid in the Warden's Court to get possession of ground previously'pegged and registered by other people. * ! • No word up to this time of the pros* pectors having struck the golden part of the"ir reef. Both Mr. Mackay and Captain Fraser are away—the former at Tauranga and the latter at Grahamstown. ;