TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1386, 21 May 1881, Page 3

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OW N CO RRESPONDENT.)

The Battery. Sinck Wednesday we have been indulging in a plentiful allowance of nothing to do, the arHval of the boiler inspector having ' required the cooling of the battery boiler, ' and work having been stopped accordingly. We are preparing for a further break with all despatch, and this morning the contractor commenced carting down 40 tons of quartz from the Smile of Fortune and Morning Star claims, which will be proceeded with at once. Great hopes are entertained of a better show from these two claims than lias been presented by some of the others of which as high expectations were held. It is curious what sensational fellows these great rough diggers are, ready at one moment to indulge in a week's '' bust " merely upon the strength of their good expectations of their claim, and ready the next moment to "chuck the whole thing up " because the first throw has not been quite such a brilliant affair ag they wanted it to be. Here for instance, there is no doubt that one or two of the principal claims have returned less gold per ton than was originally bargained for by the excitable ones who went in for a msb on TV Aroha but still there is undoubtedly the gold there in any quantity in the ran«re, and it has only to bo skilfully and industriously "worked, and it will pay some one though not the rushing or excitable first comers who expect to make silk purses out of sow's ears. The rush here did its work, it opened up the place and now must come the systematic working. It has been rather a duller time than the fiist brilliant rush, and it will not be brilliant perhaps again, but there will be work here and increase of population, j»nd increase of value of land, so it is usele-s to cry out that the place is a failure as some have done for months past. Tha Thames and the Waihi had rather dull peiiod,after the msb, but the one is now a solidly established place and the other is rising upon the very reefs that were pronounced valueless.

The Hot Springs. In the meantime let someone work the hot springs here ; invalids work better than gold mines as any patent medicine vendor will tell the world and these ' springs are real buiiajidc pools of Bethseda for the halt, the sick, the lame, and the blind, and might be made an attraction that would pay for u neat and decant : fcath-hou&e if for nothing else. Mr. O'Halloran of this place has applied over and over again for a lea c of the ground in order to make home such an attempt but red tape has turned up its clerkly nose at him and that "rood thing amongst others has been choked. The sporting fraternity have not found the game f-caico in this district, and some very good bags have been made of phpapants, ducks, and qu til. It is said that there are not feo many birds ns> in former years but there are certainly plenty to furnibh a good shot with five or six brace at any time. The great cfiiihe of the diminution of the g.uue in dn-tiiots where settlement is goiug on is not the hawk, or the wild c.it ho much as the reckless flhooling of hens and chicks or anything to fill up the b.ijr and the non observance of the clo.se &p<im>u.— M»y 20.