OHINEMURI NEWS.
[BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT.! Pakroa, Monday. Messrs Ritchie and Houston, two Ohmemuri diggers, write from Barberton, South Africa, on June 20th, that the Held is a failure. Money has been made, one man alone taking about half a million out of the country; but the panic is now over. Wages are very low, Kaffirs being chiefly employed at 20s per month, and coarse food. Hundreds are unemployed, Barberton is half canteens and drinking shops, and the Dutch are very sour towards the new comers. The Sheeba reef is thirty feet through, but is not very rich, the mine only employs now one white man and 30 Kaffirs. The men say it is no place for wages men and hope soon to be back. Altogether a very lugubrious picture is drawn.
The Ohinemuri County Council intend taking the necessary steps towards getting a loan of £BOOO under the Loan Acts of last year.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2353, 9 August 1887, Page 2
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154OHINEMURI NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2353, 9 August 1887, Page 2
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