WAIHI.
In this district a large amount of ground is still being pegged out for speculators, and I suppose in a year or two we may hear of them making a start. I am glad to see that at last there is some chance of a battery going up. McCombie and party, Mack'ay and mates, Clotworthy, arid others are busily pegging away, and are sanguine of success. The Waihi Company's contractors are pushing on the drive. The Evelyn drire is in 150 feet. They have still some distance to go to cut the supposed locality of the Young Colonial reef. . Small leaders have been out in the drive showing a little gold. Morton .Brothers are meeting with fair prospects,, .The little Tommy have still some distance to drive to cut the reef. Should it continue its present course, the Old Colonial* people intend putting in a crosscut from the Young Colonial drive. The Young Colonial is now 23 feet into the reef, and although some of the Grahamstown experts have been stating they saw the footwall, I would advise them to have another run up and point it out, as at my last visit it had disappeared. Several other parties are prospecting. I believe a "pub"is abouf to be started.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3965, 13 September 1881, Page 3
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210WAIHI. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3965, 13 September 1881, Page 3
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