OHINEMURI.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2204, 19 October 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(FROM OTJB OWN^COBBESPONDirNT.) ? Although there lias not been on© tithe of the " blow " about the Whangamata field -that there has been of the Waitoa bubble 1 , there is certainly no doubt as to its bona fides. 4. special reporter of tHe Tribune brings in very good news from the find whioh is identical with that of Brogan which caused a rush in 1872. The stone of which your correspondent has seen Several samples appers to be of a highly silieious nature, but is traversed by numerous veins of a kindly, friable ore, containing the well known blue grey sulphide of silver, and a little oxide of manganese, but also carrying coarse gold of a superior quality. The ore can be Kent from the claim to the Thames for. far less than Karangahake ore can be sent to the same place, There are fibout two mil es of; a road as smooth as a ''billiard table," to quote the prospectors words to the Whangamata Harbour from whence ore can be shipped for a few shillings^ pei* ton. Three claims have been; taken up and leases applied for. Beside the prospector (Messrs Kelly and McWilliams) Mr Peter Lynch has struck a good looking ore carrying fair gold. At Hikutaia or Marototo very little work is being done, owing chiefly to the fact that the law as interpreted by Warden Stratford forbids it, /-until leases are granted. Mr "Johnny 'V Moore who has severed his connection with Waihi, at least for a while, has taken charge of Mcßrinn's claim, Mr McKenna Replaces Mr Moore as manager of the Silverton and J&artba. mines. The latter with the battery is to be let on tribute for one year. We seem never to be done, with elections,. One down t'other come on. The County election has taken the place of the General flection for the House, and judging from what one hears one half of the adult male population is aspiring for honors in this way. The result will be of course if all btinds stand that any scrubber may get returned. Truly we hug to ourselves glorious systems of legislature and .Government." The Count y generally is in a bad way. Deep in debt, with a reduced rerenue and the prospect of a still further reduction by the proposed repeal of the Crown and Native Lands Bating Act. This will mean a loss of several hundreds per an hum, Somewhere between £8000 And £9000 has been spent by the Council during their term of office, (two years) and if any. thing the roads are a little worse than before. The Ohinemuri Licensing Committee have been gazetted Commissioners for the control of the uewly proclaimed special Licensing District at the Hikutaia G-oldfield,

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