OHINEMURI,

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2019, 14 April 1875, Page 4

OHINEMURI,

The claims in Ohinemuri are not yet Sufficiently developed to justify any very sanguine hopes of great wealth, but it is quite certain that good payable reefs have been opened in the Karangahako Spur by the prospectors, and that in Eotokohu also there are good prospects. Tho.development of the place has been greatly retarded by pending lawsuits. These stopped all work in two of the principal claims—thatnorth of the prospectors' and that which joins its southern boundary. These, had they been worked, would have gone far towards proving the worth of the lodes by this time, but in consequence of the law disputes tho whole of the prospecting on those reefs was confined to the Prospectors' claim. la the latter, two reefs, each about three feet thick, have been cut, and each shows gold, but neither has yet beea tested at the crushing mill. Tho mine is now under efficient management, and is being opened up, and in a few 'days there will bo several tons of the rock from both reefs forwarded to the crushing mill at Grahamstowu, but until that is treated nothing definite can be known as to the value of the claim. The dispute regarding No. 1 South has been settled by an amalgamation of the parties claiming to be tho owners, and an amalgamation has also been effected with tho next location on the line of reef, thus making tho area of tho claim about seven acres, to work which the shareholders have formed themsolves into a company. Pro&pecting is now going on vigorously in all directions, and the general feeling of the minors is songuino. In the Waitekauri Creek there are several parties sluicing, and others are opening reefs, and a new i new rush has just set ia to that locality,

so that in the course of the present month there should be something more delkite known regarding the resources of the place than anything which has yet transpired. This is the only -goldfield on the peninsula which is now under the Goldfields Act of 1866, all tho others being worked under the Mining Districts Act.