Mining Review of the Week.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3709, 13 November 1880, Page 2

Mining Review of the Week.

Still the principal, and in the present low state of mining in the Thames district proper, the all-absorbing thema of conversation in mining circles has been the Te Aroha goldfield. * No discoveries of importance have been made since we last had occasion to take this subject for our text, though it is admittedly possible, aye, indeed probable, that discoveries have been made, the particulars regarding which will not be made public till the official declaration of the field when the discoverers have a legal lien on what they have found. We do not for one moment wish to leave the impression on the minds of our readers that such is the case, but it must be self-evident that in the present unsatisfactory state of affairs prospectors will not enrich the general public with what their expenditure and energy may have made them cognisant of. We had been in hopes that for once in the history of this part of the country the goldfield would be opened without that bane, "a native difficulty," but it would appear that such is not to be the case, and the Te Aroha is not to be an exception to the rule as established in respect of,the several other goldfields on this peninsular. And again a pakeha Maori has been at the root of the trouble, a worthy who is noted for shoving his nose into his neighbors'kail pot, having pointed out to the previously quiescent natives! that there was a splendid opportunity of bleeding the Government to the extent of £1000/ in the shape of the bonus for opening the field. During the week our bucolic contemporaries of the Waikato and the. East Coast have devoted a considerable amount of space to articles and news respecting the field, the amount of balderdash that has seen the light of day through these channels being only what might be expected from those wLo know much better how to grow large mangold wurtzels than pass judgment on a gold reef. Our friends, doubtless, think ths opening of the field will benefit their own particular districts, and we are sure we most heartily hope that it may, but in the name of all that's sensible let them refrain from publishing inflated news calculated to depopulate every farm in the Waikato and every homestead at Tauranga. Give the field a fair show and no favor., and if it is not a " •hieer," it will very speedily work out its own destiny, without extraneous assistance.

Some little attention has been called to the New Whau stock daring the week, in consequence of the intersection of a gold bearing lode, but the shares hare not moved much.