TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3713, 18 November 1880, Page 2

TE AROHA.

(FBOM A OOBBISPOHDMTT.)

Wednesday, 4.30 p.m.

Work in the Prospectors' Claim is knocked off for the present—l believe until the field is opened, or until the adjustment of shares is settled. The leader cut showing the gold is scarcely touched, little or no work being done to prove it. The appearance of it is very good'at present, with gold in the stone and even in the mullock surrounding it;. The workings in the Prospectors do not seem to have been carried out on any but a fossicking prinoiple. No doubt when they start again an efficient manager will appointed, and systematic mining and prospecting be gone into. There are various rumors of gold bearing leaden and good dish prospects some distance away from the Pro*pe ctors, but of course as it would be folly in any miner showing his discovery until the field is open, and he is protected, no reliable data as to new find's is obtainable.

There are about 70 men on the ground altogether, and while a number of them are new to gold mining, there is a large proportion composed of experienced miners and prosectors; no doubt when the field ii opened, vigorous prospecting will ensue, and from the favourable appearance of the country I think we may expect payable finds—a consummation devoutly to be wished. A number of Hamilton and Cambridge settlers have visited the prospectors f id those of them with a knowledge of mining like the show. Some of the Cambridge folks are touched a little with the fever, and no doubt* good deal of Waikato capital will be put into the mines should further discoveries warrant. Mr Carter, the experienced Hamilton whip, arrived here this afternoon at four o'clock with his coach. He returns in the morning. He was accom* panied by a number of visi" :>rs. A Union Jack was displayed on a pole from the roof of the coach in honor of the first trip.

The County Council of Thames have let the various sections on the Ohiuemuri and Avoha road, and operations are being vigorously pushed on. I anticipate that by Christmas " your own " will be able to drive his buggy with comfort to Paeroa. If a few fascines were put on the Xomata track and at the end of Alley's bridge on the Thames line, I see no reason why the jouraey on horseback from Shertland to Aroha should not be done in four hours.

Mr Thomas Yeale, wholesale produce and, general merchant, Pollen street, has started a branch store and bakery at the Aroha. Already the bakery is in fall work, and turning out first-class bread. During the present week the store, which is a large and commodious one, wiU be open for business. With the exception of Mr Yeale and one or two others, I see few of your Thames merchants looking after business in this quarter; yet, irrespeotire of the goldfield traffic and requirements, there ere hundreds of tons of goods annually received in this district— a large proportion of which yonr people could suppiy if they chose to look after it, but which is now supplied from other places. Mr A. Price, lam glad to say, has arrived, no doubt with a view to battery erection, or the supply of agricultural implements.