TOKOMAIRIRO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 233, 18 September 1862, Page 5

TOKOMAIRIRO.

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-September; 12th^ 1882. A great number of thVmen^who went to - the punstan diggingsfrom Ab district Jiave returned rather disappointed, although tlie majority agree that with proper appliances fair wages may be~made ifthe river doesnpt rise. Numbers of them went /off' with only a tin dish and shovel, expecting rather to have to wash a smail quantity of idirt from a mass of gold thana small quantity of gold from a mass of dirt. They had also very vague idaas as to how they were to obtain provisions. Trusti-g to Providence, but neglecting to keep their powder dry, Of xourse these men have been disappointed, and have themselves to blame for it Many of them returned without ever having reached the diggings, being discouraged by the accounts of thosa whom they met'retaraing. The- news of the new discovery at the Xokomai has again set them on the move Nothing will care diggers of their partiality for rushes. They give the lie direct to the old, and in ordinary cases true proverb, that a burned child dreads the fire. 2so matter how often a digger gets sold by a "duffer" he is always ready to shoulder his shovel, blankets, and tin dish, and off to some new rash which rumor, with her thousand tongues, hasnia'Trified to a new field of unparalleled riches ° Jt is one of the things which are beyond the reach of man s philosophy to account satisfactorily for this information. During the last few days agreat number of peoplehave passed through this en route for the Mataura in fact the last three days reminds one of the continuous string of people who used to throng the road through Tokomairiro at the corn^ mencement of the Melbourne rush to th-Tua peka last spring. ,; Affairs at the Woolshed are improving as many of the former inhabitants- have returned :*" to their work. This field wUI, I think, becomedurmg the summer a very importaat one. It has been steadily progressing all through the «inter and although the last rush affected it con«derablv the check, was only temporary! There has, I think, been niorecaDitaleJmended and more science shown in developing £ re 68 1 MP^rtb^ to its sizs t^au on any of the gold-fields. Thesixth sharein a claim there was said the other day for £100, and I «m mfonned on goodaQthority that theowners

■The new. Court. House there is not vet pat up althou-h the material for it has been \>n the ground for some time. Captain Baldwin comes down from Waitahuna every week *o decide imnjag cases and other cases which are at ;> cscntheirdatthe Resident Magistrates Court at Yokoniairiro. I hear^that; the contractor for the bridge over the Taien River at the Perry has drivS the piles for some thirty feet, without beingable to find a bottom that would hold them! and that in consequence the site of the brid^ has beea altered. They are goino- to try It some distance below the Ferry, and nearer to the gorge where the hills rise almost directly from the river edge. It is supposed that a better bottom will be found there. _ Several of the constables, in this district W? aF° mted?*WW- of t^ waste lands of the Crown, and have, I : believe, recetTed.instructions to lay information (or the unlawful occupation of Crown Lands and for cutting timber without a license. In the bush here, there are about 30 or 40 cottages the occupants of which are coustantlyTcuttin* timber, m fact many of them earn their livhS :by. so doing; Most of these have been so occupied for a considerable time, and it is almost needle^ to say that they have no right to occupy the ground, and no license to cut timber A large quantity of valuable, bush-has thus* been destroyed, - , z The Wardens of the Waihola Hundred are I understand, going to enforce the takin* out ojrdepasturing licenses and other regulations of the-hundreds. .

They wrote to the Waste Land Board enqmnng whether it would assent to a code of bye-laws for the regulation^ of the Hundred to which a reply hasl^been received statin*that the Board are prepared to assent to any - Teasonable rode.of-regulations, and: advisingthe,Wardens to erect a pound. : This will pn£ bably be done, and a set of rules passed. r The sale of Sections in the Township of Waihola on Tuesday was very; dull The prices realized were low and but few section* weresold. ; -.:vv' ■•^ ; -' ; ;-:- -.;■- a-;:\- "~ the country stiU continues, and there are fires m all directions every^^%htu

«^i? VH? n3AI fferflWof August"s0 says — <Wx IGngi's people are busily employed Kk^T ing a flagsiaffat MataiWand & b\eT£ 522?- * to^ A^SS*S5°5

«JS i 6 ?*" ZealaHd Government Gexetteot beptember 6. appears the announcement that the tpllowmg acts passed by the Provincial CoancU ct Utago have been left to their operation. " The Otago Harbor Trast Leasing Ordinance. 1562, session XV, No. 69." « The Otago Public Bnild-iJ^-Mmn Ordinance, 5862, session XV", No. 70.'? *rhe OtagoHarbor Loan Ordinance, 1852. session XV^lSoy XV