OHINEMURI.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1590, 17 March 1875, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

THE WARDEN'S DECISION

Monday, March 15. The award made by Captain Fraser of the Government Reserve, Karangahake, to Messrs Thorpe and party, appears to have given general satisfaction. I hear that Coleman and pavty are in with Thorpe, and will consequently have a share "f whatever benefit may be derived from the tnine—so that nearly all the claimants are satisfied. If the parties, in the first instance, had put more trust in one another, all this trouble and bother would have been avoided. Tn looking over the evidence of the different claimants, it struck me as being remarkably strange that each party appeared to have found gold on exactly the same spot ; drawn towards Karangahake as by a mas^iet. All the gold they found seems to be in no other place but that disputed. Such being the case, one would naturally infer that the Government Reserve ought to contain a heap of gold. I am, however, a wee bit inclined to imagine that if the deputed ground had been fi'uated ill another place it would bear exactly the same—the god would have been found on that exact epot. and no other, by all tbe claimants.

WOKK ON THE PROSPECTORS CLAIM

The prospectors evidently intend to work their claim vigorously, for on Saturday night they worked until midnight, nnd set in afrain at 12 o'clock to-niaht. All this week they will most likely be at work night and day, so a3 to learn as soon as possible the value of their ground in which they appear to have great faith. Wages men aro working the ground. They also have another claim on the other side of the creek, where they have men putting in a drive. Thorpe's p^rty after the Warden's decision had one hour to man their claim, and they accordingly started off at once, followed by a crowd of diggers, some of whom, when, they had arrived on the ground, demanded to be shown gold at once, which the prospectors declined to do, as they wanted to put in a short drive to tap some water that covered the reef in their old workiugs—some angry words pnssed and there was nearly a row. One individual who had nothing to do with the prospectors, got a smack from some one for interfering—otherwise the storm abated and *he prosppctors' men were allowed to proceed quietly wifch their work.

RTCLTOIOHB SERVICE

Service was held at Mackaytown on Sunday morning, and in the afternoon the Rev. Mr Crump delivered a short address to a knot of diggers who had collected in front of Austin's hotel, Paeroa, n,nd who seemed pleased at the cheering words spoken by the rev. gentleman, so different from the style oftentimes adopted by many ministers of grace, who evidently believe that their mission on earth is to recklessly hurl destruction upon all those who may unfortunately cross their path.

BUSINESS SITES,

I have noticed at Mackaytown that parties who paid £1 for residence sites in streets marked off for that purpose, have opened stores in opposition to those who have paid to Government £5 for the privilege of having a business site in a street, set apart especially for that and no other purpose; and it is not fair to them that anyone should pay only £1 and have the same privileges as those who pay £5. By the Act this is not allowed, and will doubtless be seen to by the proper authorities.