OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2393, 10 November 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

County Elections. —Xho battle for County •‘honours” has now fairly commenced in this district, and is of course the topic of the hour. On Saturday last the following candidates wore, nominated for the several ridings Paoroa Riding, (3 seats) Messrs William Croy Nicholls, Charles Featherstone Mitchell, James W. Shaw, Francis Lipsey, Edwin Edwards, David Snodgrass, Janies M. Robson, Fredrick Cock, Charles J. Dearie, and Asher Cassrells. Karangahake Riding (ii seats,) Messrs Lockwood, Edward Quinn, James Hosie, Charles Franklin, James H. Walsh, and Carroll Nash. Waitokauri riding (2 seats,) (Messrs Edward Thomas Corbett, John Hooy Moore, E. Joseph Sharp, and Jno. Phillips, Junr. Mr Frederick Strange walked over for Waitoa. On Saturday evening Messrs Charles J. Mitchell, and Edwin Edwards addressed the electors at the Paeroa Public Hall; There was a very large attendance, and both candidates spoke at some length and were accorded a fair hearing. Meeting ok County Council.— The outgoing Council held their valedictory meeting on Saturday last. All the Councillors but Or. Humphreys being present. Inter alia, a letter was read from the Clerk of the Thames County Council staling that although they had power to enforce the immediate payment of the .£IOOO, balance of award of the Auditor-General as between the two counties ; they would accept the offer of the Ohinemuri Comity to pay the samobj instalments. Men were ordered to be put on the main roads. Paeroa-Tauranga ami Paeroa-Te Aroha; also on the pack track from the prospector’s claim at Hikntaia to the main road. A track from Clraydon’s at Waitekauri to the latter place is also to be cut, with branch tracks at a cost of £SO, provided Government assist. Mr Chas. C. lloyes, chairman of the Lake County Council, wrote, asking the cooperation of the Council in getting portions of the Comities Act, IBBli, made retrospective, in order that certain payments, illegal under the Act of 187fi, might be duly legalised. Mr lloyes stated that his Council were uncharged with such illegal expenditure personally. The request was cordially complied with. Another Gold Fr.\n. —There is yet another gold find to report. This time at Puriri, midway between Hikutaia and Grabamstown. The discovery was made by Messrs Harry Wright and Bedford, two residents of the place, who have been prospecting for some months. It is situate up the right hand branch of the Puriri Greek. Soma decent stone has been taken cut showing gold, but nothing can yet bo said as to the value of the find. There are several reefs known to exist in the locality, but whether gold-bear-ing or no deponent sayeth not. At Maritoto or Hikutaia, Mr John H. Moore has six men at work on McPrinn’s claim. The hanging wall of the reef has teen driven upon for 1(1 feet, and the lode appears te have improved since first opened. The friable or rubbly portion has increased in depth, and is now about four feet in thickness on t|ic wall of the reef. It is almost like a huge oake of ashes, and can bo shovelled out. Twelve tons of fair dirt are n the paddocks, and four tons left for Auckland on Saturday, where it will bo treated by Messrs Fraser’s pan process. There is very little work being done in other portions of the field, as the warden will not allow of any dirt being taken out until tithes in full are granted,

Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, —The Ohinemori County loses i’Odo 10s 10d by the proposed repeal of the Crown and Native Lands Hating Act. An Odour ok Bui.i'UL'it.— A strong sulphurous odour has been hanging about for the last few days.