OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2542, 25 October 1888, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

Miking Nkws.—As the works at Waihi are Hearing completion, Mr Walker has dispensed with the services of about 40 men. There are still about CO.! employed. | A large reverberatory furnace is to be immediately erected, when all will be ready for a start. As it is confidently believed that gold will be found at the lower levels, as Foon as the shaft is pumped, there is scarcely any doubt but that the English Company will meet with the success it deserves. It will scarcely be credited that without any fuss or blare of trumpets, the Company has already expended £25,000. The Knrangahake furnace has now fairly started. The galena sent from Te Aroha proved to be useless for smelting purposes, as it contained too much zinc and not enough lead. Another lot was sent to Karangahakc on Saturday, which is of a more suitable class, The Crown mine K:irang;ihakn recently floated in Glascow is about to make a start. The mine is already opened up well and thero are about 1,200 tons already for treatment so soon as that longed for "suitable plant" arrives. One gets sick and liied of continually re-iterating the fact, but there tho gold is, waiting to bo extracted while we. like Tantalus, hunger and thirst for the feast before us without the means of grasping it. Lkctuke BY Mr J. Mums.-Mr Josiah Martin, tho well-known photographer, etc., of Auckland, gave a lecture on Saturday evening at Paeroa, on "Primitive Man." This w»a illustrated by some fair magic lantern views and was extremely interesting. He threw a good deal of light on the question as to how pre-historic man, who although iii one sense only " a little lower than the angels" was in a physical sense not so high as many brutes ; earned his livelihood—how the dawn of intellect, containing the promise and potency of on Edison or a Herbert Spencer assisted the physically weaker man in the 'gigantic struggle for existence against the huge and ferocious animal life of the stone age. Looking back through tho aions that have intervened between that period and «mr own century, one may fairly wonder what the aspect of humanity may be in a commensurate time forward. Mr Martin has an easy delivery, and a simple manner of giving his information which is admirable. It is not everyone who can speak of such erudite matters as Prehistoric M an, so that a country schoolboy may hear and be interested. N.mvi! Land Bisputks. — There is trouble brewing hero among two local tribes of natives, claimants of a certain block at Koinata, one side have erected a costly fence and endeavoured in other ways to exercise rights of ownership, while the nther side as promptly pulled it down. An R.M. case will be the outcome of it. Coaching Entkiumii.sk. —Mr Crosby, the popular and genial coach proprietor of Tauranga, has commenced running a daily coach service to Waihi, which lifts long been required. He has provided a new and gorgeous vehicle for the line, in cream and gold—a coach eminently useful, as well as ornamental, and just suited to the work. Everybody who knows George wishes him success in his plucky venture. Thk Wh'ATHKlt.—Wβ have been experiencing glciriows spring weather. If the making of it had been in our own hands, instead of Ciipt. Edwin's, we should not have bettered it. Tho fruit crops promise exceedingly well, and there is abundance of crass.