OHINEMURI NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2323, 31 May 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI NEWS.

[from our own correspondent. ]

Paekoa, Friday. I'£ is vepjr gyideijt on this goldfield that, with the present'misafcjijfapfory position of affairs between the Government,"the eojjnjfcy council, and the director of the quartz reduction works, in reference to the ; construc-

tion of the tramway to the works, and to the fa&t £li,s failure of the smelting process, as regard's our refnpt.qry ores, together with the proven inadequacy .old battery, that it any good is to be done with

our stone in the present and immediate futuns it vvjll have to be exported, and treated Tljis jt is evident is being discovered fty .th? owners, to judge by the quantity of ore is now being spot away. The Union,' at Waihi, set the example, and now the Adeline, Diamond, D'ubjbo, Mammoth, and other Ohinemuri mines ar,e sending away their stuff, chiefly to the Thanjes. " At the Moanataipi battery, Thames, crushing is done very .cheaply, ■ about 6e per ton, >yhile .the tailings, wjiich, of course, contain the gwtd ijot saved by th,e battery, generally fetch by tender iftorp £has jfcho cost of transit.

Mi' F. W. Foley has been giving a series of entertainments at Paeroa. He is renjarkably clever in his impersonations, and js indeed wonderfully srhait in his changes. Mr Stratford, R.M., had a very heavy court on Thursday last. There were some half-dozen police cases and about 30 civil cases. ; fyjfr jf. W. Fjsher, the actor, was fin,ed the heavy penalty of £10 and £2 costs for holding raffies for pictures in connection with the Diorama of tlie' Tarawera eruption. Mr Edwards was fined £2 and costs lis for allowing an employ''' to ride a horse while in an unfit

state. Mane, a native, from the Bay of Islands, was m'ulcted in a penalty on£4 for being drunk'and disorderly and assaulting the police, f* ■ r A revision ~.cburt, to ,-decidp the most point as to whether 'miners' rights can be placed on the j- roll for a ,new gold field riding, will bo helfl on June.7th before Mr Stratfordi r i Mr Thos Hollis, a prospecting-expert, long kqown- in, Ohinemufij and who hns recently "returned froiri Fiji, has left for Barbaton, South Africa. Quite a number have departed for the same destination recently; from-here." "T' * " • Several .new j names inre mentioned as* being likely candidates! for the Tauranga electorate, among which are Capt. Turner (Tauranga), Messrs McC.osh Clark, C. F. Mitchell (Paeroa) and Goo. Vesey Stewart. It is, however, no constituency for politicians to hunger; aftqr. ; Its en'bHjious size,. combined with, ita bad roads and the hon-community of interest of ijja.i various' districts' render Jit >alin6st unworkable for one man. It extends from .the Kaueranga bridge at, tho Thames to. -Cape'-Runaway- in one direction,- and the Tqngariro mountain in another. <It takes to fall the I 'inaccessible crags and peaks whereupon lives any. human being on. the /East - 1 -Coast;' -and" in fact requires ran Admirable Crichton and a Hercules— "two single gentlemen rolled into one " to work with any satisfaction to himself or his constituents. Wherefore politicians crave Tauranga ? THE LATEST. ■ [hy telegraph—own correspondent.] ; Paeroa, Monday. Tho Hon. -Mr Russell," accompanied by his two, sons, Mr Thomas Morrin, and Mr J. W. tyalker, yesterday visited the principal mines at Waihi, and returned to ,?Atickland> via Te Aroha. The chief object ; :(6f their "visit .was to exa,mine the^Union mine, in which some of■tlie.party are interested, and which is to be floated' on the London market very shortly.