OHINEMURI

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2647, 29 June 1889, Page 2

OHINEMURI

Trade with Waikato,—A pretty steady trade is now doing between the Waikato and these districts. The Matuku and punt are bringing large consignments of Waikato oats &c., and every week or so fruit trees, cheese, coal, &c., are being consigned. There is no doubt that the interests of the two districts are identical. I believe the time is not far short when the biggest local market for Waikats produce will be Ohinemuri and the Upper Thames.

Mining Intelligence.—'The bad roads and unsettled weather are impeding progress in mining works, there being little news to report. Mr J. H. Russell the " Kmperor of Waihi," is pegging out in all directions and has a very large area of good, bad and indifferent auriferous land enclosed within his ultimate pegs. There are those who deprecate the working up of such large areas, with the raonoply of all water rights &c., by capitalists and syndicates, but when one considers that the buna fide working miner has had years of chances to peg, occupy and make his fortune out of this land, and has all that time very carefully avoided the place, never even regarding it as valuable until some I one else has taken it up, then the conclusion that it is high time that some person coirniandiug money, with energy, speculative ability, power of organisation and methodical work should try what he could do, is a most reasonable one to arrive at. Fortunately or unfortunately Ohinenuiri is not a poor man's diggings. Much money in addition to the special advantages enumerated above are necessary to the carrying of nulling works in this locality to a successful issue. The red bloused, sombreroed digger, aiJund whom hangs such a rich odour of romance, a la Bret Harte, has got to step down and work for a common-place " eight bob " a day or else go and pioneer around somewhere else. There is no place for him 011 Auckland reefs.