The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4025, 22 November 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1881.

The splendid specimens of auriferous quartz that are at present on view in the Bank of New Zealand demonstrates unquestionably that a great future is in store for the Upper Thames district. For several months past business has been dull on the Thames Goldfield, and it has only been the recent rich finds of gold at Waitekauri and Owharoa that have enabled the numerous tradesmen on the Thames to steer clear of the Bankruptcy Court. Indeed, gloomy beyond comparison would have been the prospects of the Thames business people, had not the returns from Owharoa and Waitekauri proved that in the districts near the Ohinemuri River we have a fund of untold wealth. The inaccesible character of the country about Waitekauri has been one of the maiu causes why the mineral wealth has lain perdu, but as the County Council are making every effort to render the journey both easy and speedy, we may expect the place to be rapidly settled. The Thames may congratulate itself upon having such fields as Waihi, Waitekauri, Owharoa, and Te Aroha, and may rest contented with the knowledge that she is not dependant upon ground in the vicinity of Grrahamstown, and should be proud of those men who at the expense of home, comfort, and civilized life, have taken up their residence in the middle of an almost impenetrable bush, where the rough character of the country and the discovery of auriferous quartz are their only consolation for the loss of social joys- •