PIGEONGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3723, 30 November 1880, Page 2

PIGEONGRAMS.

(FBOM OUBOWN COBBEBPOND3NT.)

TB ABOSA. Last sight. The Mines. I visited the Prospectors' Claim to-day, and found Murphy and partf were making first rate progress with the drive through good country. In the place where the specimens were obtained, I saw several good colon of gold, and think the prospect very encouraging, considering the small amount of work that has been done. With regard to the disputed area,^ which is generally known as " Te Aroha^T No. 2," Mclntyre and Fergossoa have discovered gold in it, and the feeling is that Mclntyre, Fergusson, Marriman, and Corbett had a preferential claim, but should have had their four men's ground cut off before the opening of the field, and the miners object to their mates, Frater and others having the same right. The shareholders of the Morning Btar, better known as "Jimmy Acton's dis« covery," have opened the reef in two places and have seen gold in the stone. This day, 3 p.m. .

Some surprise was manifested here to-day, when a well-known journalist from the Thames put in an appearance shortly after breakfast, and at once proceeded with the gratuitous circulation of the first number of the "Te Aroha Miner and Thames Valley Agriculturist." The young bantling was welcomed heartily by the storekeepers and miners as the advance gnard of progress, and although at present of necessarily small dimensions, there is little doubt that ft short time will suffice to enable the enterprising proprietor to enlarge it. It is to be issued tri-weekly, but it will soon become a daily publication. Such an institution is much needed here, as the claims of Te Aroha need a champion, and will now have an able one in the new journal.