Ohinemuri.
(FBOM A CoiEBSPONDENT.)
Paeboa, January 17th. Numbers of miners are waiting in expectation of the field being opened; and all speak confidently of the prospects of the district. There is now no opposition on the part of the Natives to prospectors —they evidently being as anxious as the Europeans are to have the place opened The business people are making preparations for a hrgc rush, by increasing ifcheir stocks aDd enlarging their premises^. The proposed township, at Mr Austin's^place, is Ic-lced upon as a very go#d position, and will probably be a central place for some time. Some parties of prospectors have been trying the country at the foot of iho ', roha mountain, and in several of the creeks have found several feet of wash containing gold, which, in more than one place, would pay. There is plenty of quartz in the neighbourhood, and some very large reels. The bush is, however, unbearable for white men, owing to, the swarms of mosquitos, which give little rest either day or night. \, • . -
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1885, 18 January 1875, Page 2
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171Ohinemuri. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1885, 18 January 1875, Page 2
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