Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2020, 25 June 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

Wednesday. To-day I went on a trip to try and discover the whereabouts' of the, last gold find, but I,'Jiad to give it up after going through creeks and mud all day., I suppose that nottiing will be known till the parties have legally secured their ground. ' I p*id a visit to the south side of the Prospectors. On one claim I r found all hands pretty miserable on it," owiag' to rain having been pouring down all day. They .intend to send down next week a few-hundred weight'of atone, from a-reef about eight feet thipk. " Business people seem in better spirits. As far, as bad, roads are concerned, well they are bad; I can assure you I havejjaxejle.djn.my-time over worse roads. Those who write and talk aeainst the Tairua road not being passable for taking up machinery, to my' idea must have been-accustomed to walk upon pavements and carpejs. If there are any heavy goods required to be taken up there "aro men ready to do it. I believe there arc some people talking about a billiard-table being a paying game. .No doubt it will,.be, and perhaps it will surprise you and the public'to hear that there is a party ready to take up-the largest billiard-table that can bo produced. The talk against the leases is a hue and cry', got up by parties -who were out of the iunt at Ohineniuri and Tairua. I am interested in a claim here, and I found that about three men had been working a ten men's registered claim, the unfortunate sleeping shareholder paying his 30s a week. This is not a solitary case' of men receiving money and no work being done. The little work ".done -in: the. Tairua Company's shaft sinccrccommencing has shown how rich'the gold is. There is no falling oif since the last work clone, but ai" the shaft is opened the prospects get more encouraging. I have no: hesitation" : in saying that if the reef were struck in the tunnel showing gold .in-the stono.the shares would be; doubled in value, because it would prove that the gold is pot a mcro nocket or a blow. The two' "tons of stuff' are"" being packed to tKe Tairua' river; whence they-will be shipped.to Grahamstown by Mr Jackson. .