TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1376, 28 April 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The moat strikingly situated claim in Te Aroha is one on the hill-side overlooking the front of the town, and to look at the work the holders of this claim find to do, The Don is one of the busiest on the field. There are three drives on three separate levels, one on the upper level that penetratps 13 j feet, and another on the lower level that strikes in 100 feet. Theso cut the reef, or its main leaders, and to judge from appearances they will supply crushing material for tli9 battery that will return a laige percentage of gold, and will make the Don a better known name by-and-bye. The country is easily worked bandstone, that, as an old miner , said in my hearing, " cuts like a cheese." If he has no other faults to find on experience, he is a lucky man, and singularly exempt from the trials of thia life, which, other men are heirs to. If we notice the amount of work required to start a pushing little township like Te Aroha, we need not wonder at the growing dimensions of the parcel that always meets our eyes unfinished at every stage of life, even in % man of the energy and good fortune of a Beaconsfield or a Gladstone, and it will ' seem strange to think that the work of one of our political gladiators has been terminated for ever in the bourn from which there is no returning. People here are not astonished to hear of the verdict of the gods' elect in the Procoffi's case. They only hope that the Maoris will not demand a victim for their victim with a high hand, and we need not be astonished at any mark of the ineffable wisdom of the vovpopuh vox Dei. We have been so gratified with displays of this kind lately that we have got beyond power of surprise altogether, and may restrain our ardent feelings, however, they may be swayed by impulses. That we are wise beyond the gifts of our mere fellow-men there can be very little doubt in our magnificent Saxon complacency and self-esteem. That our own estimates of our perfections exceeds that .of all others may be the fact, but self-confidence is the main-spring of all human ambition, and without it man is nought in his keenest endeavours to be the arbiter of his own fortunes. No one must pause and hesitate to examine his spring before ho makes it or he will run a chance of losing his time and his trouble. It will be time enough to congratulate onesself when the athletic part of the business is completed and the springa have been properly performed ; never count your laurels before - they are reaped, or it is possible to count a dummy or two for realities. We shall know soon on what to build our hopes of Te Aroha, but shall we be any the wiser in fact ? or able to see further into a grindstone than we do at present? In all probability not, bo -we shall be none the worse for a little modesty to begin the day with, and then if vre are specially favoured, all the better for ererybody. The weather is fresh and moist, and the farmers will find it most favorable for their operations in all directions, root crops of all kinds are looking par,* ticularly wqU,-— £pril 26, <