TE AROHA GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3240, 8 December 1880, Page 2

TE AROHA GOLDFIELDS.

(BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

GRAHAMSTOWN, this day.

NEW DISCOVERIES. The "Advertiser's" Te Aroha correspondent says:—" Considerable excitement was caused here late last eveninp by the reported discovery of gold in two places : one four miles north • ea«t of the township; the other on a bald spur at Fraterville, and at an early hour numbers might be seou wending thenway in the direction of the first-mentione d "find " I have no information as to the richness or otherwise of the discovery, beyond the fact that numbers have gone in that direction this morning with the object of pegging out claims-with regard to the other find, I visited the scene of operations this morning and found in a tunnel some ten feet la length a rubbly leader, about ten inches thick. Several dishes of stuff broken out from the lead were pauned off in my presence, all ot which yielded more or less gold. lie prospectors a-re Christcy and party, w"0 have been working to intersect this lead since the opening of the field. All the available ground iv the neighbourhood was pegged off before six o'clock tins morning.

INDECENT HASTE,

Several Fraterville residents, regardless of punishment for indecent exposure, were pegging out in their shirts, so eager were they to obtain a. good piece of ground. Several experienced miners, who havo visited this locality, and to whom 1 spoke on the subject, inform me tbat injtheir opinionj the "find' is a valuable one. The spur on which it is situated being composed of first-class gold bearing country. The lode is supposed to run JS.B. by S.W., which will take it through the Hot Springe reserve. Work was resumed in tho tunnel in the Prospectors' yesterday morning, three thifts of hands being employed, and tho drive is now in a distance of 40 feet, the face being in good shooting country. The stone is well mineralised, an indication that should the lodo be met with in this class of country it will be of excellent quality and equal to the expectations of tho most sanguine.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEKT.]

TE AROHA, Tuesday. A fifteen-stamp battery is about to be erected on the creek below the Prospecters.

Open-air services were condtcted on Sunday—in the morning by the Key. Caulder, ot Hamilton, and iv the afternoon by Key Law, Wesloyan minister. A large number of ininera and others attended the services.

Two well-known miners at the Thames arc so satisfied with the permanency of the field that they have applied to the Warden for permission to construct a waterracd The required permit was at ouco granted. Buildings arc going up in nil directions, and in a short space of time a street, in this hitherto silent wild, will be a fact. Alongside the Hot Springs Hotel Mr O'Halloran has erected a capacious general store, where goods of every description may be procured. Our local post oflico is at present located thero, but I believe the time is close to hand when we shall be able to boait of a Government telegraph and post-office, not to mention a court-house, railway station, &c, &c.

All the Thames mining surveyors are up here, and are having a good time of it, and are not likoly to leave for some little time to como. If the Grahauutown people should require a surveyor they will have to send up here for one.

[From Tuesday's " Te Aroha Mail."!

Work was started to-day in the Bonanza and the Te Aroha No. 1 South. Four men are employed in each, under the supervision of Mr John Goldsworthy and Mr T. Gavin respectively. Shares in both claims are selling at good prices. In tho Aroha No. 2 South two shares wero sold to-day for £20 each.

The reef recently cut in the Morning Star ground is a splendid body of quartz, but up to the present no gold is showing in it, although good prospects can be obtained when panning off. The shareholders are now driving on the lode, in the hope of meeting with auriferous stone. The reef is showing in several different portions of the ground. The breaking out of a goldfield here has had the effect of enhancing the value of land in the vicinity. As an instance, I may mention that a few days ago a settler, two or three miles from Morgantown, who bought his land for £2 an acre on the deferredpaymentsystem,was offered £120 cash for 12 acres. The would-be purchaser was a Waikato auctioneer, who required the land for a site for a slaughterhouse and sale yards. A new hotel for a Panmure gentleman was commenced this morning. It will be most commodious and suitable.

Messrs Wilson's drapery and Moore's grocery stores aro fairly progressing. The Golden Crown shareholders intend to start vigorously, having taken out a lease. A new claim was pegged off this morning to the right ot tho prospectors, and a license applied for. It is said the owners have a show In the ground.