RICH FIND AT TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1448, 13 October 1881, Page 2

RICH FIND AT TE AROHA.

Ovr correspondent writes yesterday : — A terrible epidemic > has broken out in the vicinity of 9e Aroha— fever, fever such as diggers generally g&t when, they \ catoh a glimpse of the "precious metal. The fever is doing dreadful havoc, and our friends are being carried off by the raging disease. It , has ,made the town once again lookjilie - There were many here wno . did not believe that . 1 ' Johnny, the; Maori, "" had found 'Anything worth .while ; one, pQi^oii) laid a waj^r of ,jy'" f|.ver " (i thakJph,njiy had npt discovered & 'find ,wmch would' be the . cause of bringing one" hundred me^n ' (in addition to those 'now on, the diggings) iht6fre M Aroha by the end of this nforith. The money wag'stakec^ and is' now very likely to be won by Johnny, The reef is an 'enormous one, and in Johnny's claim there is to be seen gold 'in 1 'almost every part of it. By good judges \t is expected to yield five ounces *tb H Ise to^i Vehieh means a'lai'ge fortune to the lucky digger. A gre.at many claims' are ' pegged 'out'on the line of reef,' and' also' beside' Johnny'^. There, is one seripus ',' drawback ' (t6 ( t6 the otherwise speedy 'develdpmeui; v tV this find, and that is the situation it stands in relatioh'toth'e batteryi ' However^ that difficulty, I anticipate, will r be soon ' got over, as the find will i 6 itself necessitate^ the erection of iinotFier one. T£ would not' advise men who are^not in funds to come . < to this new find ; but we nave something worth while for those who could afford to spend a few' months without immediate return, or for men who can speculate on their own money. Great .excitement prevails amongst the business people, and many allotments were taken up to-day; " '