Ohinemuri Goldfield.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5015, 7 February 1885, Page 2

Ohinemuri Goldfield.

Ki.HANGAHAKE.—Some ground, lately the Fhesnix claim, was re pegged at the end of .last week. The reef ii reported as showing well, but, like many other claims ' in this district, there must be more bat* tery power before anything can be done to got the dirt tested at the mill. The Crown is still on excellent stuff, 1 the reef showing 9 ft wide, and the prospects being really splendid. The battery is going fall time, and the Ivanboe, Scott, and Woodstock are all hard at work.

Owharoa.—The Radical is the only claim looking at all decent. JBauld and party, tributing in this mine, expect a fair , crushing in about a month. Hicks and party, I am informed, are also doing fairly well.

Waitekattbt.—This township suggests the idea of a.modern Pompeii; an unearthed diggings of former times, having been left severely alone by the Goth whose name ia " Advance." The ponderous battery wheel slumbers in ,<, huge mnjesty, as Falstaff might sleep;? the roll of the tramway disturbs not the : peace of the browsing bullpck, for the truck sleeps in ricketty peace upon the summit thereof; a few ancient brooms are . dimly seen reclining against the window * of a forgotten store, and a. group of fos* silised children regard, the being, whom they have never seen before as who should say "A stranger! heave a rock at him.'* There is, in sober earnest* very little doing in the way of gold. Mr Jno. Ralph is, however, doipg his level best, and ii worthy of all praise under the wet-blanket circumstances. There are a few tributem i at work, but the battery has been olosed for repairs since Christmas.-—Tribune,