(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.)

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 432, 23 February 1875, Page 2

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.)

Napier, Monday. IJews of a sad accident has been receiyed from SPovsrty Bvy, Mr Sibbs' hotel, fras been -burned qj)wn and his wife and two children burned to 4>ath.

Wellington, Mm day. A gold mine) 1 of twenty-two yeHi*3 experience — three on the Thames—has written to the "-Times " this morning concerning the supposed Ohinemuri goid-fields. He recommends miners to continue working whore they are and not leave the sakstanc." for the shadow ; during exciting times when all kinds of reports of rich finds from Ouiiismuri were coming daily. Two other experienced miners started from Saarpe's crossing with food and tools, tUey tow ml Te Hiras hut deserted, they pissed tAe ni^ht there, and afterwards pi'oapected foui-teen miles of country up the Waiha. They found numerous reefs, some mullocky, plenty of great thickness. After driving along them, they found all quire barren. They reached undulating country, they found many old prospecting holws and sunk alongside them, but only in one instance did they tiud gold. They describe the country as terribly J*oiiv?h, nothing, but a series of steep rid-jai And precipitous chasms converging and terminating i.i rapid creeks, many with formidableXwat^alls. They were prosp.cling twelve days and found : neither alluvial nor quartz in payable quantities.