Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1983, 13 May 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

(FBOM Jl COBBESPONDENT.)

More Pegging Out.

The bearings of tho reefs hare been taken and the ground around' for miles has been pegged, out. The line of the prospectors reef runs close at the back of the stores that were once called Measles Town, but which has received an appropriato name. Work in the Pros^ pectors^ . No doubt on account of the number of intruders that come and bother the pros-. pectors, they donfc work by' day in* the shaft,-they resume the work at night. /They are working the one drive with two shifts—from eight to four and' four to Mwelve;'-: They 1 are short of hands at present, but intend tb j man the ground fully, after the, 25th of | May. They cannot put a pick _in' th'o ground but what they get, uplendid gold. There, is gold got in other leases equally j good, I am informed <Sn/ good authority, I which has been immediately afterward)* covered untilthings aresettled.. ; r ;

General.

Mr McLaren, Mr Pulleine, and others are up here at present seeing about tbp rood. Mr McKec, boss of the road men, is making great progress witk the road. It will be a great improvement to the ol(l tiack. ' \

Mr Hale, o|, Auckland, is putting up I a Jarge building on the Prospecting claim for a restaurant and bakery.which he is going to superintend. The building is 40 by 18, with oven and bake house attached; all floored. The rain commenced yesterday about 3 o'clock with occasional crashes of thunder and lightning, which made things anything but pleasant in the bush. Mr McLaren, who came here by way of Kauaeranga,. states that ithe country is very broken, and to make a road that way would cause too much up and down hill work. When the'road that they are making by way of Puriri 13 finished, it , will be the best way that can be got, for this reason : after you once get on top of the hill over Charley Eowley's place of business, you have, the way the new track is getting cut, a level country to the Prospecting Claim. Substantial huts are in course of erection by nearly every one that intends to stay here for the winter. Mr Jackson, storekeeper, from Tairua, intends to cut business as fine as possible —he sells flour at l*s per cwt. I don't think our Thames business people can compete with that. He has now a lot of men at work cutting the track to his store, which is being erected on the Prospectors' ground, and will shortly be completed. There are a few men prospecting about I in the gullies, I was speaking to some of them and they say that this will be a splen--1 did golden country, but that there cannot be anything done until such time as the fine weather comes ; before they are out now half-an-hour they, are drenched io {the skin with the water falling off the trees.