THE OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2456, 28 October 1876, Page 3

THE OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD.

: (FHOM OtJE OWN COBBESPONDBNTS), Mackaytown, Friday. I am glad to be able to announce that tho Postmaster-General has-decided to open a branch office at Waitekauri. Arrangements are now being made by Mr Cook for tlio conveyance of the mails, and no unnecessary time will be lost in opening the offico, which will be a great boon to the miners in that district, A few of the men have started for the Kumava rush, but those of my acquaintance could bo numbered on the fingers of one hand. If some of them get as good chances down South as they have had up here they will not have reason to grumble, and it is just possible that we may see them back again before long. It is my opinion that Ohinemuri will be a goldfield and a flourishing agricultural district when the Kuniara shall have beea forgotten.

Mr McNeill and a party of men have just completed the erection of a very substantial bridge over the creok at the back of Sorenson's, on the permanent lino of the Mackaytown road, which will in future do duty, instead of the ricketty old structure between Sorenson's and Marsh's, which was getting to be positively dangerous. It has been very -hot to-day, and the summer seems to have fairly set in. It is to be hoped that the Government will take advantage of it and do something towards making the road from Puke to Mackaytown while they have a chance, Mr Mackay went to To Aroha yesterday, and I shall be very glad to hear that he has been as successful in his negotiations there as he was here. Mr A. D. Bennett, of the Thames, did a stiff bit of riding in quick time to-day. He started from Paeroa for Te Aroha at 6 a,m., and returned at 430 p.m, after having done his business and indulged in a bath at the hot springs above Omahu, besides giving his horse a spell on the road. Paeeoa, October 27. The good accounts from the Kumara, together with a general slackness in mining enterprise in this district, have been the means of attracting some of our miners South, where I wish them luck. Alluvial diggings, no doubt, hold out the greatest attractions to the miner, where the capital required is a pick and shovel and a good strong constitution. I have j heard some rumours of alluvial gold having been found in small quantities on the Waihi plains. If some lucky prospector would drop on a payable patch, we might soon have an extensive alluvial field of our own. The beautiful weather which we have had lately has had the effect of quite changing the. appearance' of the country: everything is beginning to look green; and the horses and cattle, which, a month ago, could hardly pick up enough to sustain life, are now beginning to look quite sleek and well fed, the roads are in good order, and what was a month ago quite an undertaking (getting to Owharoa or Waitekauri) is now simply a pleasant walk. Sections for building purposes are being inquired for, and there are _ several buildings now in course of erection both here and at Mackaytown, so that on the whole you will see that if slowly we are nevertheless surely advancing. I have not heard any mining news of consequence ■lately., A great many persons hang their faith on Owharoa, and I am myself of opinion that at any : rate several of the claims thcro will be proved to be payable, and there is' still a lot of likely country unprospected.