OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2919, 31 March 1891, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

Minim;.—Them is ready very little new,-! i.t any public importance. to chronicle th<s wee!-. except the repart tivit a 111 " majority of t!ie Owh:iroa district, ineluiing the Smile of Fortune, has been . ; old to°an Auckland syndic i!e. Several now

prgginn-vout arc recorded at Ival'aiis.';i.hake, ehielly on nsi'i about the new road where the Grand .1 unction occupies the premier position. Iwo ot these new claim-! — the Cornucopia and tie: lixc.'lsior -aro in c.vcdlent positions tor ['old-beariiur 'oek. The manager of tin- Adel'ne (Mr ). W. K'.mv) is making good i.i-a Iwjy with hi:, d'ivs. on the l'eef, and expects to yet. under tile old shot of gold in about a mouth. The country is improving. At \\ aihi the usual work is proceeding. Mr lUijo.ll i: making an o.pcrimeut by putting eteel tilings into tin: pan.-, which ijsaid logreatly facilitate iiiiialg-uirvtiou, althmgh il impoverishes the bullion. Tjil Komata jMuutii Block.—An application for the re hearing of the ease of tli J KoutaU North liluek came beiore the Nai ive Lands Court at flic Thames last week. In this case judgment was givt 11 by Judge Seaniicll, at I'acroa, about IS months ago, wheu Haor.i lareranui, Tukukino, and their Iwpus were awarded the block, as against Jtitutofco Mataia. Wikiriwhi, and others. Siuee then, however, ccrtain new facts ha\e transpired, which, when laid b.lore the Judges, warranted a re hearing beinu granted. This cause involves nearly 4000 acres of the best land in Ohincmuri. Houses a Dun;. —The value of horsetlesh, if public sales aro to be taken as a criterion, is most excessively low at Paeroa at the present time. Not lonir since seven fair unbroken animals w> re hawked about for C 2 the !o\ without success; and ai the IrMt sale by the poundkeeper ihree very fur horses wen' for l-ls the lot, and a >d mire and foal—well worth Cl!—sold tor lis