A Visit to Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2175, 23 December 1875, Page 2

A Visit to Tairua.

(FBOM^£OBBEWp^E»T.) r ; , I paid a visit to tli^NevesnUeTfownship ; lately. The place bore the appearance $3f a deserted, village." Those that I coal, versed with thought that as soon as the nevr battery, was started affairs in mining would take a fresh start in spite of the . drawbacks. '& The presidents 3 blame 'die Superintendent and his Executive for a great deal. They" certainly have done nothing^ to 7 assist the~place to go ahead;' in fact it is a standing monument ofProjvincial'misrule, and blunidering'-iroih th| firsttQ the last; Anxious enquiries are made after the Inspector Mines A'& What? " says one, " Dp, you thinki yon will get any of the Provincial servants up here for tho next three months ? They b% electioneering, or parading the Superintendent about"

'There Ms only oiie claim 'a^wdrlPttif Golden Arrow. *Ji'Tii6"entliS' r'(^lainti^'irf i'-. locked up. Overtwo-thirds of- the leases, never have had a spade put; intqthe soil. We are -■ losing the ■'■ very ■: menHtfiii^ saved, Auckland, from being, insolvent; It appears that the Provincial power's are determined to drive 1 these men away to Iwratiifeß.;ne i iF through -gross- lituhect^Xtf — their offices; ... ... o > Messrs Tetley and McMasters deserve credit for the manner in "which they Kave~ pushedjtheir contract ahead. jTheporfcipn of thei road done is; little or no good^it being from hash's to McOleary's. Mr Gallagher had his sledges on this road this week, and .he has,^pronounced it a dead failure for thei conveyance of machinery^ It appears that the Sttperi^ tendenfr promised to give -Mr the;'^contractor; .every assistance, rThe/ head of the department seems.to ignore the promise made to the Puriri deputation. The old roadlhas not had anything done to it. This is where it is = mott r»*' quired. . Over £300 have been squandered away ;i since the -fields «wasC opened itL portions of the track-unused. There is certainly some influence at work against a practicable road beiag made from the Puriri' side. ; If £JOO had been expended on the old track a dray could have; Jbieeii takeni within one mile of the prospectors. Hovr is it that tenders where not called for the making of the road Jfrorn the Tairua landing to: the battery site ?.,, A ; nice little job. was. that-^the- manager of the party was, or is connected with Jackson of Tairua—some two hundred pounds paid away on the quiet. Qn the Kiri Kiri track, Government money was expended to please Mr Beeche and others; they were' the onlytpersonls that- fcried^it 3ibr once, and as a matter of coarse where the head of the' department dejpends upon others you must expect nothing but failure. This road is condemned-mot a single person has travelled on it since. It is as well for the^publie;. of the Thames that they should be kept posted on these matters. No doubt the Superintenderittliinks that his petty government is .being-carried on with'perfe^tion.';-.l^eter sincetherehas, been a goldfield in the province of Auckland has there been such dissatisfaction and distress amongst the working miners. - Having just picked Mp. a espy of Advertiser, I see their-special correspondents gives, 'airather; rfav ; bra.bleTKrepprt the Bonanza [lease,;,,the: fact is, littje;^or nothing has been .done. ;The..correspon-. dent, jam told, is cine of the largest shareholders; this speaks'for itself. I-regret to haye^ to report the,,sj^pppagi :'of works in : ?the Independent-imineA : They, deservedbetter, as itisjone.o.utoEia few that have done legitimatewofk.iu i* * I have just •seen Mr Gallagher. He tells me that he intends to have a waggon up on the old road as far as Smith's, which will be a little over one mile from the prospeotorsf f; -^ - T ; 7 U „.,, "Political,—Mr Gibbons appears to! [be the^fayoritein'this distr^c]tiv- r;7 ' l ' ■ : , *-^--;-