Ohinemuri.
Saturday morning. Numbers of people continue to arrive here by each steamer,' but few return. Canvas Town is extending; stores are starting wp in all i directions, and the supply of all sorts of necessaries is equal to the demand. A meeting wa3 held yesterday to discuss the question what Act the field should be proclaimed under, with a view if necessary of making some suggestion to the Government. Opinion was divided,as to whether the Act of 1866, or the Goldmining Districts Act, which was specially framed, to meet the requirements of the Thames, would operate most advantageously in promoting the occupation of the district. Your leader of Thursday, pointing out some of the points in the Districts Act, has given rise.to an opinion that it would at any rate prevent the objectionable practice of jumping. Nothing definite was arrived at. There is little or nothing doing. Those who are out on the hills keep there or pay furtive visits to Canvas Town at night. Ycry few attempt to leave here to go prospecting. The representative parties—they who have backers in Grahamstown and Shortland — are doing little or nothing. In fact things are as quiet as can be, scarcely an event occurring to break an existence which is becoming monotonous.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 13 February 1875, Page 2
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211Ohinemuri. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 13 February 1875, Page 2
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