OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD.
[iROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 Paekoa, Wednesday. Here as elsewhere no previous election has caused so much interest as the forthcoming general election. The alteration of the boundaries, which cut Ohiuemuri from Tauranga and tacked it on to Coromandel, has put all the local politicians out of gear. They were so used to looking to Tauranga us headquarters, that to right-about-face, as it were, and look for candidates in the other direction, seemed passing strange. It seemed at first as though) Mr A. J. Cadman, the present member for Coromandel, would have a walk over, but several other names are now freely mentioned, notably that of Mr Jas. Maokay, Mr Mackay is just the man for the place ; one of the pioneers of the goldfield, a prosperous and generous man in the rosy “early times.” He has lately got out of the running in matters political. Although lie is now standing for City North, it is believed that if a requisition were signed lie would rather contest a goldfield than a city electorate. Mr Francis Lipsey is now busily engaged on a requisition, and already has some 120 names. Nothing can, however, be said against the sitting member, Mr Cadman. He is a shrewd man of the world, and will doubtless receive much support. Several minor luminaries are to the fore also. Mr T. M. Humphreys, lately a clergyman, still more recently connected with the La Monte furnace fiasco, and for the last few months practicing as a solicitor on the Thames and Ohinemuri, announces his intention to run against all comers. Of the dark horses, Mr Brodie, the general chairman of the Thames County Council, will be in the running. Should Mr Mackay, however, stand he will virtually have the field to himself. The contractors for the Thames-Wai-kato railway, Pacroa section, are in a bad way. Last week the men, to whom is owing a large amount in wages, etc., struck. It is said that the sureties for the contractors will be heavy losers, and that it is almost certain that fresh tenders will be called for.
An Amateur Dramatic Club is being formed at Pacroa, and gives an entertainment in aid of the library and read-ing-room on August sth. The comedy, “ Cool as a Cucumber,” will be played, the chief performers being Mrs Walter Sullivan, Miss Blakely, Messrs C. F. Mitchell, Lockwood and Edwards. The winter is always apparently the worst season for goldmining, ?.t least in Ohinemuri, the bad roans preventing mines from getting dirt to the mill. Although not much appears to be doing, however, yet there is a good deal of dead work, driving, sinking, breaking out, &c., being done. In the Adeline a parcel of 20 tons of first-class dirt is being bagged for treatment at the Thames. At Owharoa, Messrs Farmer and party have struck good gold in their tribute in the Smile of Fortune, and there is every chance of it improving. The same party some years ago in the same mine took in net profits £1460 per man for six men. The prospecting drive in the Smile of Fortune is in some 1080 feet. Nothing has been done in it since the last of the Government subsidy was expended, although it is known that only another GO feet of hard country is to be driven through before reaching the auriferous belt of country which is identical with the Waitekauri belt from which large quantities of gold have been taken from time to time. In the Union mine at Waihi the reef has been cut at a depth of 125 feet. Nothing is as yet known of the quality of the ore. We have been experiencing some remarkably fine weather for July.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2345, 21 July 1887, Page 2
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622OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2345, 21 July 1887, Page 2
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