OHINEMURI.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2248, 12 January 1876, Page 3

OHINEMURI.

(FBOM OtJB OWN COBEEBPONDENT.)

January 10. I visited the Banyan on Saturday, but cannot add to what I hare already written. Nothing has been done to open up the lode, as an injunction has been applied for by Mr Calder, and there is now a mail in charge to prevent any person working. I send you four pieces of stone (broken out before the injunction was applied for) which have been lent to' me by Messrs Austin and Barclay. You can show them to any persons who may wish to satisfy themselves, and return them to me towards the end of this week.

It is to be hoped that (he Earangahake battery will bo pushed on without delay. Had crushing.power been available some months ago thero would have been more work done. • People have ;been getting somewhat disheartened, as, although they could got plenty of quartz which would pay at a moderate yield per ton, they had no means of satisfactorily testing it. The foundation .of the Karangahako G.M.Oo.'s battery, is laid. down, and the bed-log is ready to be placed in position. The contractors expect to get finished within conlracfc time, but I am afraid that tho water-race will not be completed in time,.as the: contract lias not yet been let.

, A meeting was held -at Waitekauri today,and the following resolutions wore passed: -Proposed by Mr Marrinan, and seconded by Mr Miingovan, '"J hat this meeting strongly, urges -Upon the Superintendent the necessity of pushing on the Waitekauri road,'as it will not ho finished in time for this summer at the present rate of progress,' and if not finished within a.month from'this: date,, all works on the Waitekauri will probably be do-

layed for. anothor year." Proposed by Mr Harrington, and seconded by Mr Foley, "That this meeting also requests that tho present pack-track may be repaired at once, as it is in a frightful state." I understand that Mr John Bro.wh goes down to-day to interview Sir George Grey on the subject. January 11. Captain Fraser and Mr McLaren have arrived. The latter has sent a man to prospect tho present pack-track from Paeroa to Waitekauri, with a view to starting work immediately. Urquhart, of the Young Colonial, is taking down somo good stone to-day.