Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1984, 14 May 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

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sTesterday; morning many intended to go oat and see the lease" that was surveyed by Mr Wright, of Wripht and Bayldon, surveyors. On each side of this ground surveyed there are pegged 10-acre leases, there is plenty of country for pegging out, and, no doubt, will be pegged providing the test of stuff at Shortland proves payable. I was informed by one of the prospectors, a Mr Frost (or Frosty, as he likes to be called, on account of his grey hair), a gentleman who has nearly visited all the rushes in the colonies, tbat ho just got a small prospect in a Greek which he thought would pay for sluicing, and he commenced to work. The ilittle 4, run of gold he was on ha.traced to this big:reef, or net work of leaders, from which the last test which was. considered pfijfebldfe^ was taken: In this ground Mr Pulfeiiu^ has an interest, and he took a leading part in getting it surveyed. Business at Tairua is very dull, and if it was not for the promising appearance of. the rich,reefs and leaders alreadj found in different claims'and leases, the storekeepers would soon throw up the sponge and return to town with their goods and chattels. * As it is, they will wait, doing nothing'almost for a couple of months, until such time as the weather sets in dry. Mr McLaren, District Engineer, accompanied by Messrs Wright, Pulleine, Sully, and several others, came ever from Tairua yesterday, to catch 1.30 p.m. boat. At first starting they picked their step 3, in order, no .doubt, to keep their feet-dry, but they soon found out that it was a matter of impossibility to do that, so they went straight- through the centre of it—some times going down below their knees—but, I must say that they* acquitted themselves as well as the. mud channel would allow. On thejourney across, we saw four new pegs cut alongside of the track, and close to the old Perseverance, Puriri." They were marked P, with a X cut into the pegs, and in pencil -writing, P. Bonfield. .While looking and _ examining the pegs, -Mr Bonfield' came up in working trim. On being questioned a little, he"'said he was on a lay." I think 'he said ' he was to peg off a business site. On coming to Charley Bowjey'i he made us all welcome to a "good feed, which was done justice to by the' travellers. At Charley Rowley's I was informed that P. Bonfield went up_ there, to re«peg~out the Dawn of Hope, on account of being over three weeks.worked and not-regis-tered. lam of opinion that he is going the wrong way to look about the getting of it, but if he caught it he will" have a good piece of ground—for. I have seen myself a block of stone lor ,2cwt. with veins of gold visible light through the stone, although none' of the machines at Puriri at that time-could save half,the gold. , The average yield of the Dawn of ff ope - was 3 ounces to'the ton. .About that time there was a depression in mining interests, the machines stopped and so did the Dawn of Hope. There is a great deal of good ground:about -Puriri^that will yet pay and make a considerablfejtir in the market.' I see also in Puriri on the flat a residence site taken up by Ifr Hogg, nearly as large as thoserfreehold lots that, are .going to.be sold by Mr Cleary, dairyman of that pliee, itiaTtfew days, for which Mr Hogg 1, has. onlj to pay £1 per year;' 'f " '' "; ■'""J r xi