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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2026, 2 July 1875, Page 2

The first ordinary meeting of the TairuaGoldmining Company will be held at the Pacific Hotel on Saturday (to-morrow) at 11 o'clock.

A meeting of the Thames Rifle Hangers is to be held this evening immediately after drill, at which every member is requested to be present as the business is important.- ; : :

The Ohinemuri Prospectors have got their machinery for crushing some three miles up above Paeroa, ready for further carriage towards the machine site, which is rather difficult of access. As far as the weather and the roads- Trill permit every exertion will probably be made to expedite matters so as to get the erection of the battery complete, which, once effected, it is expected that the reefs in this debateable ground will soon give a good account of themselves.

Thebe were no cases for hearing in the Resident Magistrate's Court* this morning. . ,:■-

It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that there will.be no steamer to Auckland to-day, the Hauraki's time having been altered to 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, in consequence of some slight derangement in connection with her machinery. She leaves from Grahamstown. The Enterprise will leave Tararu tomorrow night at 12 o'clock.

The monthly inspection of No. 2 Ifauraki Rifles will take place this evening, and - a meeting of the members will be held immediately after, for the transaction of important business.

The "ugual monthly meeting of the Thames Land, Building and Investment Society will be held on Monday evening next at 7 o'clock, and not this evening as advertised in error in the morning paper.

The Town Clerk notifies that a copy of the Burgess List for 1875-/6 is open for inspection at the Borough Council Chambers during the present month.

, Ohinemubi claimholders, or the great majority of them, see only one drawback to .the development of that gold field, and that is the want of machinery : in other words the want of. capital. While Tairua has been causing so much excitement of late, from the splendid prospects obtained in the Prospectors' claim; Ohiuemuri has, not found &: place in the minds of most men, but there is every reason to expect that the latter place contains mineral wealth, which Vill in time to come, give employment to thousands. Many of the original prospectors in Ohinemuri affirm now that.they are not disappointed, because they never found anything which justified them in looking for greater prospects than have beenobtained since the district was proclaimed a goldfield on the 3rd of March in the present year.^ The disappointed ones are those whose imaginations were excited by' the mystery hanging round a country locked up for so.long a period, and about which there had been circulated, from time to time, such ex* travagant ire ports regarding its mineral character. It is generally acknowledged that many of the reefs at present being worked would prove payable

with such means ofipevelopment as we have upon the Thamtes. The great, desideratum is the presence in the immediate locality of the claims of proper machine power, in order that the progress of mining operations may be facilitated, and crushing at a reasonable cost obtained. To secure this capital is required, but it unfortunately-happens that many of the claimholders in Ohinemuri are not in a position to incur large expenditure in the erection of machinery, and it is for this reason that affairs have, for some time now, remained in a state of statu quo. It is satisfactory to learn, however, that the prospectors of Karangahake are making efforts that will result in something practical. They have lost no time in transplantingthebattery purchased by Messrs Thorp and Verrall on behalf of the company, and it will soon be erected on' the ground, beiDg at present at Mitchelltown. If any reliance is to be placed upon the late trial crushing from the Prospectors' Claim, the reef should pay well, when the quartz can be crushed in the district;, and if satisfactory results are once attained by the prospectors, all mining at Ohinemuri will receive an impetus.