OHINEMURI.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1623, 28 April 1875, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(PER STAR CARRIER PIGEON.)

The Superintendent's Visit.

Show in Logan's Reef.

Deaths from Measles

PAEROA,

(From our own Correspondent.) This day.

His Honor the Superintendent arrived at Paeroa in the steamer Alert at Ip.m. yesterday, and gave a short speech in front of Austin's Hotel. He promised to widen the road to Waitekauri. Sir George was loudly cheered. He then departed to Mr Mitchell's. A good show is reported in Logan's reef, Waitekauri. There are more deaths amongst th 9 natives from measles. The heavy rains have swollen the creeks and river 3 and almost cut off horse communication with Mackaylpwn. The road thither cannot possibly be finished for a month owing to a deep siding that has to be cut. Sir George Grey will have a practical demonstration of the necessity for public works here. Things are looking much brighter here. News from the mines is mo3t encouraging, and a battery or two would make a great change in our prospects. The Banyan workmen have passed through the hard belt of shooting country, and are now working in easier ground. Another leader has been cut, showing gold, and the reef itself is expected to be shortly in hand from the golden stringers running into it. There is no doubt but that it will be found to be highly auriferous. GOOD YIELDS IN THE WAITEKAURI. Several parties in the Waitekauri district are doing well (sluicing. One claim I am informed i 3 yielding aa much as from £3 to £5 per man per week. It is expected that those working on reefs in that locality will have to regibter their claims during the winter, a_s it will be almost impossible to get machinery on to the ground during the rainy season. NEW LODE AT THE IIOTAKOHU. In Smith and Snowden's claim at the Itetokohu affairs do not look so bright as could be wisked. The country beneath the clay slide not being at all promising, and the shew of gold not to be compared with that disclosed above the slide. The extan*ive slide of clay lies almost flat, and cuts the country in two a few feet just below the surface. On this account tiie Evening Star people have not been fortunate enough to pick up the reef which is cut otf by the slide. Lower down the creek than Smith's towards the Basin a new lode has been discovered, which, from the show of loose gold and quartz smothered with the previous metal that I have washed from a few handfulls out of the reef, promises to turn out very rich. A hundredweight of stone and mullock taken from the lode and not picked now being forwarded to Grahamstown as a trial test will an idea, of the nature of this new discovery. When the above find, which is at present a secret, becomes known there will no doubt be another rush to the Basin.