WAITEKAURI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2155, 30 November 1875, Page 2

WAITEKAURI.

I -, rtCSBOM'.A'COBBBBPONDENT.)'.. - • = WAiTEKAiJii, r Saturday. ; There was' some%xcitemtSnt'here last nigbtcaused;by a.rumour that the What Cheer plaim had struck something good in the upper part of their ground, and' 'close tjo4he boundary of. the Beehive I'ground, which has been^xather. neglected of-late. There,uwere a good few, men (ravelling around the country in the vicinity of the What Cheer, and a stranger looking on Would have thought there was a lot of fire-flies flitting about, a* everybody was provided with a candle. .Occasionally two or three lights would get together, and then,a whispered consultation would take place ; of course everybody was supposed to be laid onto jump the shares in' the Beehive, and this morning before daylight the Grand Waitekauri Handicap started, distance Dine miles ; the Warden's Court, Mackaytown, to be the winning post. There'were five starters. The first left here about three o'clock,. the next In the course of an hour, and the rest all within an hour "of the. second. ;Its not known here yet who won the event, but the. bailiff of the court is expected out this afternoon' with;the result of the race. The last news from the starting post is' that there has been nothing found to warrant a rush at all. I hear there has beon a good many pieces of stone tried from the supposed find, but there has been no prospects therefrom; It is) supposed that the firstapiece of stone tried was crushed in a mortar containing some gold, therefore a'^odd prospect was got. We wanted a little vexcitement of some sort, as things are very dull at nothing fresh having- been found lately;" and-'the most of (the men.up.herfi being sp short of cash.' v There have been & good'many new hands; iupj; but (there is nothing; for them to do, as nobody here is in a position to pay wages.