Ohinemuri.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2012, 16 June 1875, Page 2

Ohinemuri.

(fboji a coekespondent.),

Mackaytown; June 7. There is not much importaiit news here to record. Those who have' pinned their faitLon Ohinemuri feel very "much disappointed that, as? yet," there is no sign of a battery being erected:here. ■' There; can bono reasonable doubt but, that there" will be not only one, but many, eventually) on the field. But, I regret to say, when that time comes, it will be to many persons

here, "to whom may be fairly attributed the hona fide prospecting of this field, " live, horse, and you'll get grass." To whom may be attributed this evil, —to those who 'aro most deserving of better success as a just reward for their enterprise and industry; it is verydifficult to give an J individual opinion. Ono thing is certain — that, had the field been thrown open in a proper manner without the index finger of the Natice Office- being so conspicuous and so evidently interested in all the proceedings attached to that opening, to-day Ohinemuri would tell a different tale to that which I have herein recorded.

""■ It is possible had the parties who ri6w are called the " prospectors " shown that energy which it was expected they would have done, mining would be much more forward, especially in' the Karangahake, than it is at, present.,, L venture to say; that themselves would be much benefited^ by such progress, "and also many others,! .thereby placingthe prospects of th^^wholel field above tho;injury it sustains from'the, evil cry of so-called ".croakers '.'.and un-! reasonable'and disinterested sceptics, asj to its auriferous nature. As a sequel to! what L have now written, it is beyond; question, ■ had 'the- prospects, -'tend' the amount of gold which now can be seen in; the KaraPgahake been found and,shown when the first rush took place here, so to speak, Ohinemuri would have gone 1 V;sky.high" and now be .in 1 a fair way to realise the long and ardent expectations of the public from it.' But I suppose it is the old story, " give a dog a bad name ;." 'and'not only those who do so, but everybody else who becomes infected with that belief will be very difficult to con-, vince that ho is good,for-anything e\se\ but hanging. However this maybe, as, regards the .Karangahake, I have not the, slightest hesitation in stating my opinion that, in reference to it, many of those, ■ persons will yet repent, and exclaim a 9 they have done in other fields, "Oh 1 I could have a share in 'so and so' for *so and so,'but I was not lucky enough."