OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2457, 10 April 1888, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

0 Cou.VTT Esginber.—Mr Lindsay Jackson, who has been engineer to the County Council for the past three months, resigned his position on Saturday, and immediately left the employ uf the council. It is stata that this took place owing to certain members of the council interfering with the engineer's work, and placing men on the roads on their own respsibility. The Council is particularly unlucky in its relations with its employes, who somehow, Runner or later, either throw up their posi-. tions in disgust or are dismissed with a similar feeling on the part of the council. A "working" foreman of works at the magnificent salary of 7s per diem is now to be appointed. There ate some thirty applicants. Mining.—ln the, local miningworld there is little of immediate value to report. A noticeable feature, however, is that while there is littlo sensational in the way of huge assays, &c, there is a good deal of steady, earnest work being done, which beafe better fruit than all the "gas" that has been let off lately. The major portion of the Waihi machinery is now ou the ground, and Mr E. M. Corbott, who is fixing , it, up, is making steady progress with his plana for the erection of the plant, which is no novice's work. The Globe mill is one of the chief features of the plant. The crushing work of this is done by a large steel ball, which revolves something after the fashion of a berdan, and is worked by centrifugal force in a chamber. To show the extremely fine powder which this machine can reduce to, it is only necessary to siiy that it is drawn up by a couple of fain with a large wooden chamber high abn\o it, There is aUn a series of screeners or sieves, working on an axle or shaft for screening the ore when crushed wet. The working of the plant will be watched with much interest by all chose connected with quart/, milling throughout the colony. Mr J. H. Mo-ire, manager of the Marotnto, informs in« that if it is a success his company will erect a similar one at their mine. W.UKATO PIIOIICCE FROM AUCKLAND !— Tt is o. peculiar fact, in these days when facilities for exchange and the opening up of arteries and capillaries of commerce, that no our hits as yet seen the absurdity of sending Waikato produce to Auckland, and frim thence to Ohinemuri via Thames. \fist this is a fact. In your columns some time sinue you commented upon it and utternd whit might siiem a commercial ruism —that if business was to be done, sumo one u'ouM do it. Yet this some one has not yet turned up. A writer in Brett's almanac this year, say.-, "A word as to future prospects. At present, Waikato produce is sent to the Thames-Te Aroha market mainly through Auckland merchants, but in this indirect connection, the farmer and consumer are both sacrificed to the middleman Is there no on-j who will move in this matter ? I do not know how railway freights run to Te Aroha, (I suspect this has something to do with it) but the river freight is cheap and although our market as yet is not lar«c still even at present, Waikato produce brought direct from Waikato could compete with Waikato produce brought round via Auckland. Veil), sap.