(From the Daily Southern Cross.) OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 449, 3 April 1875, Page 2

(From the Daily Southern Cross.) OHINEMURI.

M*ckaytown, Thursday, 1 p.m. The owners of claims in R )tokohu are pushing on their works energetically.' In all cases where the character of the ground is suitable, draining ia earned on, but in others as well as the prospectors sinking is carried on. There are three claims registered —the Star of the South (Prospectors Snowdon and party), Evening Star (Skidmore and party), Star of the North (B.ttes and p*rty) ; but there are a large number of others, east and .west of the prospectors, where work is going on briskly. The. course of the reef is east and west. The prospectors onK.arangahake have been delayed by having to timber up their drive, but they will have the i*eef in hand by the end of this week. In the B inyan the drive has penetrated 4 feet into quartz, but it is evidently cutting diagonally through the lo- le. The nature, of the stone continues the sanio as that exhibited at the "Advertiser " office. People ate anxiously waiting Mr. Horton, the assayed report on the metal contained in the stones, for, although most people are convinced that it was gold, others are rather dubious. A quarter share has been bought in this claim by Mr. Stewart, formerly lieutenant of the Thames Scottish Volunteer Company, bub the amount has nQt transpired. News from • Wailekauri is very encouraging. Leahy's party have got the reef in their drive. ° It shows a fine mass of rock. It is penetrated for a depth of sft., but the other side h.^s not been reached yet. 1 The stone is of a very promising character. The reef in some portions is brown, in others blue, the latter predominating. There are also streaks of white quartz, and reddish veins which look well for gold. The county is also promising. The drive in wbich the reef was found was from the east side of the spur. Is has not yet been cut in the driving from the west-side. It is said that gold is visible in some of the stone broken from the drive, but this had. not been corroborated. The claim adjoining Leahy.' J* has been worked by Barry's p irty who put in a drive 68ft. from the west side of the spur, but did' not reach the reef. They cm trenches in the top, but without success so far. No. 3 claim is occupied byFoley and party, who have been more successful. They cut the reef in a drivo from the east side of the spur, 1 and got in it the best show of gold yet found in Waitekauri district. McLean,s party have driven in two places along the course of a soft reef which they propose sluicing. Some time ago one of the driven was in tea feet, and the other about twenty. They have met with loose gold all the distance in both. It is expected that this will lead up tathe main reef. They are now about to start driving in a new place where they will have a good jnullock tip ; and they will then drive right across .the spur and intersect any lodes which vi.iv strifes dow,i. 'the miners -in Waitekauri are in good heart, andworfcing with energy. Not much going on in gum, but sufficient is beingfound to load a packhoree daily. \ ' ' • r

it .. . ••• ■ - Wellington, Thursday. , Tjrphorl.fpvej? ia-pwvalent and- several cases have resulted fatally. Tae City Ojuicil had u Ion? discussion this afternoon ar, to the rig'ifc ot Pr-ss reporters being present »'t C'>minittte meetings of the Council. It was ultirnitel/ dticitUl tLd,t reporters should be allowed to }>c present. ' r - filxe'llmicy tho Governor and Lady Normanby ii " ; I «*•» onteriai inieut ol C i^e's last night. i now duift Justice took the necessary juJicial oti!i"» At th. 1 Gjvei-oineiit-housd before his E^ellcney the Governor, und the Minister of Justice anA P-»«

raissiotier of Customs bsing' present, representing the Executive 1 CounciW His Honor leaves for Dunedin by the s.b. ' Eusby ' to-morrow. I

Nelson, Thursday. TWo dead bodies have bfcen found on the Sindspit, upon which an enquiry will be held by Mr. j Davidson, J.P, Sftverl portions of a wreck have been found, also articles of clothing and the body ot a large btack and white retriever dog. It is quite possible. that these are the portions of some wreck reported from the west of Wanganui on the 20th March, but the lighthouse keeper at the Spit thinks the vessel to which they belonged must have been from 200 to 400 tons, whereas the other wreck was estimated as not excrfeding 100 tons. On the evening of the 19th Mirch the lighthouse keeper saw one barque and two brigantinas standing towards the North, and one barque, hull down, standing up to Blind Bay. The barque standing to the North was painted black, with a wide red streak.

Hokitika, Thursday. The races were continued to-day, when the Hokitika Racing Olub Hmdicap waa won by Yatterina, 7st. 21b., beating Guy Fawkes, 7at. 71b., and two others. — The Stewards' Cap : Yatterina, 1 ; Gay Fawkes, 2. This was a splendid race throughout, and run very fast. — For the Hurdle rae% Tommy Djdd and Migonta starteJ, when the formar, on whom odds to one were laid, won easily.

Ciristcliurch, Thursday. The s-s Omeo arrived at Lyttelton yesterday, and brings some valuable Lincoln, and Leicester sheep. The pripes for the Clydesdales were very high, the i oolfc cost .£750, and one of the mares £350. Mr I Wells was offered £3,000 far the entire in Melbourne. H. R. Webb, member of the General Assembly for Lyttelton, addressed his constituents last night. In referring to the abolition of the provinces, he said be would vote for the bill, based on the resolutions of last session, and held himself open to vote for its application to the whole Colony, if it was thought that such a course would be desirable, but would oppose its application to Canterbury, unless the land fund and the local control of local affairs were • preserved intact. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Webb for his «peech.

Dunedm, Thursday. At th« meeting of the City Council last night it appeared that the cost of the proposed gas-works would be probably from £28,000 to £30,000. Great dissatisfaction, is expressed that nearly every week cases come before the Waste Lands' Board of Departmental mistakes in connection with the sale of land, and it appears a great deal of the matter goes into the " Gazette," including important proclamations, without revision, being famished to the printers because the copy as sent is lost. Mr George McLean will not have a walk aver for the vac Hut seat at Waikouaiti> as Mr. F. IX Rich, of Busby Park, a local candidate* will contest the seat.. The crops in the Mount Benger district have turned out heavier than in any previous, year* In one field of oats, as. high as 70- bushels to the awewere cut, and in some instances a little over 80. The oase Groves v. Soraerville, was tried in the District Court before Judge Bathgate yesterday. It lasted until a late hour. Judgment was reserved.

Port Chalmers, Thursday. The following verdict was arrived at by the jury on an inquest touching the death of George Smith, who was killed in a catting at Port Chalmers on the 31st March : "That George Smith was accidentally killed while working in a cutting at Port Chalmers." To winch the jury added the following rider: "In our opinion the face of a catting 19ft. 4in. was too high ; and we would recommend the Government to pass an Act restricting the height of earth to be fallen to say 10ft.; also that contractors be requested to provide efficient supervision over works of this kind. 1 "