TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3758, 13 January 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA.

(FROM OTTE OWN COEBESPONDENT.)

A better state of feeling is setting in among the miners, and the improvement in the winze in the Prospectors' has in some measure restored confidence. Some of the stones taken out on Tuesday were as good as any yet found on the ground. The couutry in the low level is improving, and the contractors are .making better headway. After a few more feet of sinking, it is intended to open out from the winze in both directions, and, if the reef continues to carry gold for any distance it will encourage prospecting on the Spur. On the Tui line of reef, four large claims have been taken up, in all of which good stone has been found. The natives seem to favor this locality, and have taken up a claim of 32 men's ground. They have quite a village on the Spur, and are most sanguine of getting rich stone.

The Warden has issued 73 miners' rights since the holidays, the applicants being principally miners.

The building mania is still on, and in all directions business places are going up. The streets are well defined now, and the place is beginning to look like a township. The large public-house lately erected by Mr Quinlan is well patronised, and Mr George O'Halloran is busy with a large addition to his premises. Messrs Lavery and Whitehouse (the latter well known as-Mr Benshaw's assistant) expect to hare their premises open in ten days. The road to where the bridge is expected to be erected is being rapidly formed, Mr George Lipse'y having let a number of contracts. The culverts are already in place, and the earthworks are in an advanced stage. It is expected that at &§ mpeting of the JDounty Council to take place on Saturday, the construction of the bridge will be ordered.

The Warden, with Mr Burgess, has been hard at work getting the department in order, and Mr McLaren is getting kis report ready upon the mining operations in the various claims.