OHINEMURI. ROAD TO CONNECT CAMBRIDGE WITH OHINEMURI TO BE STARTED AT ONCE. (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 442, 18 March 1875, Page 2

OHINEMURI. ROAD TO CONNECT CAMBRIDGE WITH OHINEMURI TO BE STARTED AT ONCE. (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Pukateawairahu, Tuesday, 5 p.m. The natives have assembled in large numbers at this settlement foi the purpose of signing the schedule of the deed of conveyance, and to receive the £500 promised on the signing of the deed. The signing occupied all day, and the last to sign was Kepa, who exhibited some reluctance. Te Hira was present, and signed. Mr Mackay said they were now assembled to finish the tajk about Ohinemuri, which had been going on for so many years. He was now carrying out the word he hpoke in 1866, promising that wbon the land was opened ,£5OO would be paid. One reason why he should not pay the money was that they had not all signed, another, he was not cleu,r into whose hands he should give it. "Hoepa suggested it be [.laced in their midst. Mr Mackay at length offered to pay £300, and to keep £200. He recommended they should mqet again to-morrow, and give the others a chance of coming. This whs agreed to. The Kiriweras were absent. The following pigeon message was received at (liahamstown yesterday : — Mdeknytown, Tuesday, noon. The reiif has not yet )><-*en reached in the pro- <

through. It contained some fyfrbly qufcrtz and a little gold in stone, but a very poor dish ffro'spect. There were nine publicans' licenses, at «£2O each, taken out for Mackaytown. There were several applications for licenses ioi Paeroa, but Captain Fraser could not grant them, as Paeroa feeing outside the goldfield district, he had no power to grant them without the consent of the Native Assessors. He recommended the applicants to petition the Government to remove back the boundary, so as to have Paeroa included in the goldfield district. j Mr Mackay returned from Tauran^a last night, and as the result of his interview with Sir Donald McLean, I learn that a road is to be at once started to connect Tauranga with this place, and another to connect Cambridge. Sir Donald gives £700 towards cutting a cattle track between Katikati and Tauranga. Captain Turnbull and a party of surveyors are to be over this week to lay off the roads, and the work is to be let in small contracts. This woik will keep a large number of men in the dis- [ trict who would otherwise have to leave for want of money. Van^han and others of the gum party have returned. They report favorably of the gum, but, for the want of some track they can get no tucker up. :j>»Half the party started back for tucker, aod lost themselves in the bush, and the others were loft a (lay and a half without food. They wish the Government to assist them so far as to cut a survey line of some short track. They would do the rest themselves. At the Police Court to-day, James Evers was convicted of assaulting a man named James Watt, and was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. The first Warden's case was heard together. A plaint was laid by- Whelan and others against Graham and others for not working their shares in the Lancashire Lass claim. The shares were declared forfeited, and the plaintiffs were authorised to take possession of them.

- v v Maketu, Tuesday. fcr*vHnald McLean landed from the Luna thi afternoon , N off the bar, the steamer being unable to come through, owing to the shallow state of the river. On coming in, he was received by one thousand natives. Great demonstration and rejoicings, a war-dance, and speech-saying (wholesale) ensued by the chiefs of the different hapus. — The meeting was adjourned until to-morrow morning. — Sir Donald McLean and party, being provided with tents., remain on shore. Sir George A. Arney has arrived here from the South, and shortly proceeds to Auckland. The s.s. Wellington, also brings the Hon Robert Campbell, of Otago, who is about to proceed to England, via San Francisco. Forty diggers are on board the s.s. Wellington, entaoute for the Ohinemuri gold field. The Government has leased a block of land in the Morimutu district to Mr Studholme, thus closing the land to settlement.

v\ Westport, Tuesday. The Jockey Club has decided to hold a race meeting here on the Bth of April, following the Hokitika event. The chief money is 70 soys.

Christchurch, Tuesday. Mi- Holt, the late manager of the Bank of New Zealand here, was presented with a testimonial on his leaving here for Sydney. The following produce telegram was received from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Compauy, dated, London, February 25, 1875 :—: — " Wool : The sales opened at an average encline of Id to l|d per lb on. last sale prices. The principal decline has been in the superior and greasy sorts. The sale comprises about 200,000' bWes. The opening catalogue contains about fLOOO bales. Fourteen thousand bales have been senWjD^he^ttnanufacturing districts direct."

Port Chalmers, Tuesday. The first stone of the Port Chalmers water works reservoir was laid at Lawyers' Bay yesterday afternoon by the Mayor and Mr Kinnon, in the presence of the Superintendent, the Mayor of Dunedin, and a large assemblage of spectators. A silver trowel and a silver mounted mallet and level were presented to the Mayor by the Engineer and Contractors for the works. | At a meeting of the Otago shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Company, the chairman stated that it was proposed to float £100,000 debentures in London. Arrangements had been made to build five new iron vessels. Interesting correspondence between the Superintendent and persons in England relative to the salmon ova is published. Mr Buckland strongly advocates continuing experiments, and sending constant supplies of ova to New Zeadand, Mr Wilson Gray, District Jud^e, t§ reported to be dangerously ill at the Clyde. A Lawrence letter to the &Iw6lin Star, states that splendid golden stone is beffor at the "Waipari Goldmining Company's claim, the property of a Dunedin speculator. The claim now being opened up, is expected by many experienced judges to rival the Cromwell Company's claim, at Bendigo. A large number of Chinese are flocking to the drainage channel, and appear to be satisfied with the prospects.