TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3728, 6 December 1880, Page 2

TE AROHA.

We dip the following from Saturday^ Te Aroha Miner :—., The reef in the Prospectors* upper workings was stripped for a distanoe of twelve feet in length, and the lode wu solid and widening downwards. The quartz showed gold freely, and the lode altogether never looked so well. • ■ In last issue we mentioned that the Who'd Have Thought It started driving t, low level. In this working yestafdajr, they came on several loose stones show- ' -, 1 ing gold, and are in hopes of cutting th» reef very shortly. v . ; ■ Full shares in the Jbnansa were attUnr yesterday at from £35 to £W,dmht it the latter figure. We may say that the sellers were principally Maories. The Golden Eagle shareholders fail*

discovered three lodes in their ground. The likeliest is a lode about 18 inches thick, from the outcrop of which several stones showing gold were obtained. The Golden Gate shareholders (Scanlan, Healy and party) started operations yesterday, and steps are now being taken to procure a license, when it is probable that a company will be floated. Several lodes intersect this piece of ground, one of them being, supposed to be identical with the reef discovered in the Te Aroha No. 1 south, and from which good prospects are reported. Mr Kenrick will shortly make an official report concerning the field to the Government. It will be looked forward to with interest by miners. Mr J. Goldsworthy has accepted the management of the Bonanza. Mr T.Gavin has been appointed provisional director of the Te Aroha No. J gouth. Four men will be employed, and work started next week. We understand that it is Mr Gafin's intention to drire for Prospectors' leader which he has reason for believing outcrops in his ground. Many old Thames miners entertain an opinion concerning the field —that the gold-bearing country runs on a belt, Dearly parallel with the river, and about half a mile distant from it. This theory | has been demonstrated by creek prospectors, who have discovered that the! boulders in the lower portion of the creeks are almost without exception, of I dark colored flint, and when the supposed auriferous belt is reached, the creek rocks are found to be of sandstone. If this theory is proved to be correct, a great deal of useless prospecting maybe saved. The following additional notices of pegging out have been lodged in the Warden's Office :—

Smile of Fortune, 10 men's ground, bounded north-east by the Morning Light: Thomas Arnold and party. Who'd Hare Thought it, eight men's ground, bounded east by Golden Eagle and Free Lance: Geoffrey Morton and party. 'Eureka, eight men's ground, on third spur south from Prospectors': J. W. Wood and party. , Sunbeam, six men's ground, forty chains south of Prospectors': John Murdock and party. Ould' Gineral, four men's ground, bounded south by the Free Lance: Cbas. McLean and party. Omaha, four men's ground southwest of the Te Aroha No. 1 South: J. Mo CoDtbie and party. Eclipse, two men's ground, between United and Who'd Hate Thought It: Mark Messenger and party. Waitoa, fourteen men's ground, northwest, boundary of the United claim: T. G. Sandes and party, The Albert, one man's ground, adjoining Te Aroha No. 1 South and Hicks' •laim:. A. Christey and party. Bangui, eight men's ground, north of the Bonanza, and east of Victoria: W Frazer and party. "Victoria No. 2, four men's ground: Samuel Pascoe and party. The following claims have been registered:— /, ..'- , : United, fifteen men's ground, by James Gribble, J. Lapham, and W. McLean, on behalf of the shareholders. Prince of Wales, six men's ground, by J. J. Cole, C. Honeycombe, Peter Martin, J. Slavin, and Kepa Te Wharau. The Moana, half airian's ground, B. Sleeman. . , A team of horses was employed, yesterday in sleighing two tons of quartz from the Prospector's claim for transmission to the Thames to be crushed. - A meeting of the shareholders of the Te Aroha No. 1 South Claim will be held at O'Halloran's on Tuesday afternoon next for the purpose of taking steps to form a company. A meeting of the shareholders of the All Nations claim was held at O'Halloran's last evening, there being 13 share* holders present. Mr J. J. Dillon was toted to the chair. It was resolved that the adjoining claim, the Shotover, be allowed to amalgamate, Mr Kirk wood was appointed secretary pro. tern., and a committse was chosen to draw up a code of rules for the management of the claim which when prepared will be confirmed by a meeting of the shareholders. The ground is now fully manned and two drives are in progress. The lower drive is being put in with the intention of cutting the prospectors' lode, and the upper will intersect any lodes running east and west. Surface gold has been found.