WAITETE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3883, 9 June 1881, Page 2

WAITETE.

(fbom a cobbespondent.)

Notwithstanding the damper that some people would throw oo this place re the battery, the miners here seem satisfied with the "prospect s, and all bands are wireiog in. The Martha (the prospectors) hare fire tons ready to send to Owbaroa as soon as the road is passable (which, will be next week, I hope) from the loirlerel, and are breaking out fire more from the surface. I beliere they will amalgamate with the Dulcibel, aud put up a battery between them, aud as they hare a

| blacksmith, carpenter, fitter, and engine, driver in the company, and also a little" money, I think there is little doubt but that the battery will be an established before long. I - Hollis and party are making good .' headway with their low level, and Jones' " party (of Manukau fame) are in one 'hundred and fifty feet with their low level. The Waitete Co. are also at work. The Comstock people evidently mean business ; they are working two shifts in ■*%ftt<il?rate sandatoneeountryi and«rein about one hundred and sixty feet. They have -gone to a lot of expense in the ■ t , ,m.aj,ter,of..j^|Bkj^rail8 >< &c. A . i and the pros* pects, I Ihlntr warrant 'it,' "Cuminiiigs'" ' party-(partly natives, with some white men) are on the opposite spur to the Comstock, and have lour drives going ahead. ' The surveyors have been here all week laying out a township. About half the allotments are on one side of a small creek, which runs close to May's store, and half on the other. The weather has been very bad all week ;' heavy rain from the nor'-east.' j -