TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1402, 28 June 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Visit of Mr. McLaren. Mr McLaeen, the Government Inspector ot Miners' Rights, is paying this place a visit, and will at once give notice to all holders of unworked claims, whether protected or not, that unless work is commenced within a certain time, not more than twenty- four hours 1 believe, the claims will be re-let. This will impart a little life to the place, it is hoped, and will open some of the best claims that since the commencement of the diggings here have never been touched.

Visit of the Government Geologist. Mr Cox, geologist, assistant to Dr. Hector, is also on a visit here, and will doubtless enable those interested to take a more correct course in their futuie efforts than they have sometimes done hitherto.

The Prospecting Association. The Prospecting Association, of which I reported, will soon be getting to work, and altogether a more active tone will be remarked than has prevailed for the last week or two. The dullness that always follows the first excitement of the opening rush has fallen upon us precisely as I have always foreseen, and now is evidently coining the tune of systematic working that invariably follows. There is plenty of gold all through the ranges, and we shall see what the Buck reef and other reported wonders will return. From Waitctvauri I hear of 620 ounces having been sent down last week as the six months find of three men, and that two others got a haul of 800 ounces.

The Waihi. Wailii hag pulled through its dull time, and is now spoken of as one of the El Dorados of this pait of the world, and Te Aroha will be the next to make a sensation that will last. —[June 27. J