TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4285, 25 September 1882, Page 3

TE AROHA.

~- , ■ . '■■•. '• ' [FbOM THE MAIL;{f - •. Bonanza.—^he contractors, for driving ia this-ground, Whitehead and Williams, are in about,7o feet,.and the; appearance of-"the;'country has. greatly ;■ improved - within the last few feet. The drive was carried' pniyn the hanging*wall, but this was ehanj^d. to the footwall with very , satisfactory results, and a nice country is sow in hand, which may lead to good gold - as the work progresses. Ihe contract is for 100 feeti and work is now to be carried on with four men, instead ot two, as hitherto. The drive makes slow progress, owing to the hard blasting rock met, with, . but the change in the country is to the contractors, and better .progress may now be expected. Since this change, a demands has set. in for shares, but not so much in consequence of the change as the discovery -of rich gold neer the boundary, where Messrs J. Madden, J. Purvis, J. Wilson, and H. Hughes have gpent a few weeks in prospecting with most satisfactory results. It appears that they have^ taken the old Bonanza pegging as their guide, whilst the new claim embraces part of the original Prospectors' ground, and the manager assert* that the rich reef.uncovered by thb-iprospect'pr's' is about 100 feet.within the 7 pegs .of . the . new claim, as marked butJi^en work was resumed. This 1; question-will probably be tested, and to meet- such a contingency the surveyor proceeds to / the ground this morning, in order to define the boundaries and' lodge, surveys of this claim and the ground-applied for' by the new prospectors. ' A plaint bas likewise been laid against the Bonanza for surplus ground; but we "are informed that neither' applications can affect the new pegging out of the Bonanza. We also learn that the shareholders of the Bonanza claim are I prepared. to reward the prospectors for their trouble, and to give them all the '

auriferous quartz they have taken out. The.Bonanza manager had the surveyor round! the pegs yesterday, with the result above stated/ -The prospector Madden is an old hand on tbe field, having been here

before the opening, and bis faith is the auriferous nature of the bill seems never ,to hare left .lim.- vObtaining excellent dish prospects in the ground in question, he followed the. lode downwards, and this led to.the opening up of a rich gold-beari ing reef,-from- which -some splendid stone was obtained. The discovery was made at least a week or ten days ago; but the pros " pectors deemed it prudent,to open tbe lode at a lower level, and to secure tbe ground around before making known the' ■ discovery. This object having been ' attained in the pegging out of three five- ' acre leases, called Golden Hill, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, a fine dish of specimens was exhibited in the township on Thursday, and left on view at the request of several gentlemen, who wished the discovery to be known. ■ The stone was much admired for its richness, but some distrust was felt as to the genuineness "of the' discovery, owing to the" secrecy maintained by the discoverers. ~t;seTeral parties proceeded to the hill,land endeavored, to r see for themselves thelqde from which such rich stone was obtained, but none was visible. In consequence of this, our reporter proceeded, to.,the locality yesterday, the. prospectors-having previously consented ' to show'him the lode. The" ground was found to be carefully covered with mullock . from surface; but after this had been removed a nice compact reef was visible, and the first stone broken off showed rich flaky gold in abundance running through' the quartz, leaving an equally rich show in the reef. The piece broken off w,as.\ about three inches by two, and showed gold all over it., The lode was about six inches wide where uncovered,

but was opening but much larger, and had been eat in a working about 10 feet lower down, where the lode showed even richer than above. The stone taken out

would average about an ounce to the pound.: The discovery caused a brisk inquiry amongst local people for shares in the Bonanza, *nd interests changed hands up to about £60 per full share. Waitoki.—-Some good stone has been taken but of this mine since our last report, and the prospects greatly improve as the reef is driven upon. , S Moa.—ln -this mine also some g/ocl gold-bearing stone has been obtained whilst driving .on the reef, leaving no doubt as to its auriferous character.

Thhee Fools.—This licensed holding which is so excellently situated underneath the Diamond Gully and Eureka mines, at a.much lower level, and on the line of the-tramway to the battery, was formed into a company on Saturday, at a meeting held at the Hot Springs Hotel.