Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2101, 28 September 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

(from a correspondent.)

As there has been no news of importance to write about lately, I have refrained from sending hashed up news, which is sickening and bad for the digestive organs, so I prefer to write facts. This goldfield will come to a standstill through, the rottoness of the law, or neglect of the Inspector of Mines whose duty it is to see the leases are partly manned. There are leases that have .not had a spade put in the ground, some of 30 acres that hare had a manager and a cook. This is carrying on mining with a vengeance, and time it should be looked into.

A jax.—This company are about putting up a battery and are putting on more men this week.

The Prospectors ar.e getting good gold in No. 2 reef.

Beothees.—ln this district mining is at a standstill altogether, not a single claim being at work.

Koads.—l am glad there is some talk about making a road for taking up ma* chinery from the Tairua side. The new road chosen by the head of the. engineering department is no improvement on the old road, and, as the fine weather has set in, several travellers prefer the old one, it being shorter. As the contracts for cutting the new track have only cost about £200, I should like to know what is intended to be done with the balance. If a road was made about two miles and a half from the Puriri Flat, machinery could be got up. This ought to be seen into by-the public of the Thames. Imagine that "an important goldfield should be brought to a standstill through the negligence of the Government! Let . them send an experienced engineer to explore the road referred to up the Gorge instead of flitting about from road to road like a bee from flowerto flower. It is not to be done in a day's trip, but requires a week's exploring.