TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4243, 7 August 1882, Page 2

TE AROHA.

[By TeiiEgbaph.] (fbom oue own cobbesfondent.) This day. The Queen of Beauty claim was formed into a Company this morning. The Last Find starts work to-morrow. The Army has started operations. There are good prospects in several mines recently started. The Warden intends to compel work, instead of holding for mere speculative purposes, which hitherto has been the order of the day.

[Fbom the Mail.] The week has been barren of results of a progressive character, little or no work hariog been done on many licensed holdings. This is accounted for on several grounds, but chiefly from the wretched condition of the weather, which has been of the wettest character during the past few days, and such as to cause an entire suspension of prospecting or surface works. The proprietors of the Nary Kos. 1, 2, and 3, and the Empire licensed holdings interviewed the Warden during his visit this week, and asked for a further respite from active work, pending an arrangement for floating a large company in Victoria to prospect the ground, in terms of the proposal contained in our last issue. The Warden granted the application, in his desire to see capital intro* duced, although we understand that the Mining Inspector was about to exercise bis fuDCtions in respect to forfeiture, and to issue the usual first notices having reference thereto.

The demand for Queen of Beauty and Little Jemmy shares has continued, not in consequence of any new discovery the ground, but owing to a vague report that somebody of influence was going to do something with the claims, and this was taken to be indicative of a rise in the value of the ground, irrespective of prospects. Bonanza. —In this claim work makes slow "progress. The manager has transferred his services to another part of the field, and we would recommend those who have an interest in the claim to see that tenders are called for continuing the main drive on the lode in order to test its quality. Abbiy.—Work in this mine will be commenced in earnest next week, under Mr Goldsworthy.

Pbemjer.—The Premier continues to look well, and work on the lode progresses. The mining survey of this, the Army, and New Find ground is still delayed, owing to the numerous claims on the surveyor, Mr Bayldon. Batteby.—The steamer Kotuku has arrived during the week with almost the last load of battery material, and should the weather improve we shall soon see its completion, according to the progress already made. Until the tramway, or railway, is constructed work will be commenced on quartz from the out-crop lode on the High School lands, taken up for that purpose by the Battery Company.

The township on the High School Endowment has been laid off this week by Mr D. H. Bayldon, and a large number of residence sites have been applied for in this direction. The men employed on the battery works, water-race, tramway, &c, are all securing sites for the erection of small cotlage residences thereon. The section leased by Mr W. Wilson (No 682 acres), which' was offered to the High School governors for the extension of the township, and refused, has been disposed of privately for the same amount, viz., a bonus of £300 over the upset rental.

The building trade continues very brisk. Besides the hotel additions in progress, we notice business premises for Mr Pyne, butcher; Mr Ripley, watchmaker; Mr Purchase, surveyor; Mr Faes, tailor;. Mr La* * nee, shipping agent; Mr Dobson, boarding-house keeper; Mr JEccles, chemist; Mr Clarke, grocer ; dwellinghouses for Mr O'Halloran, Mr Moore, Mr Carr, Mr Whitehouse, Mr Lipsey, and others, in course of commencement and nearing completion.

The first portion of Mr J. W. Walker's new hotel is to be opened in a few days. It is being neatly fitted up, so far as the rooms will permit. At present, there are eight bedrooms (single and double), bar, bar parlor, kitchen, &c. The present bar and parlor are only temporary, and intended ultimately tor bedrooms, the commercial part of the premises forming part of the main building having yet to be

added in front of the preseut one. The bedrooms are all well furnished and fitted up. The bar and bar parlor each contain good fires, quite a novelty in the hotel line, and one that will be thoroughly appreciated during the cold weather of the present season. When complete, th hotel will be the "handsomest and most comfortable in the district.