TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1381, 10 May 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

If we are not breaking out with a audden rush that is always in goldfields, at all events liable to as sudden a collapse, we are steadily proving our stamina, our capability of paying our way to full growth, and a good share of the rewards offered for profitable steady hard work. The proof of the purldinjpis the eating' and whatever the state of Te^Aroha may have appeared when meo began to crowd here with pocketsful of money, which they were ready to fling about rather recklessly in discount of the coming success, and however the high tone may have seemed gradually to moderate as the money grew less in preliminary operations, the most trying period for all beginners in business, we are really now at the most promising time of all our career hitherto, for we are testing our expectations by hard matter of fact business, and proving that we can So »U tfws

we ever expected, and may do more, and that we can continue the business to almost any extent at a profit.

Crushing Returns. The Prospectors claim has prs«ed seven loads which may be taken as about seven tons through the battery and the remilt i« 22ozk. sdwts , or rather more than 3ozh. to the ton. The Prince of Wales has crushed about 10 tons and the fir»<t 5 tons showed abou^oz. on the plates ; several other pavcels^returned about 7dwts. This latter return would yield a handsome profit at which tho Prince of Wale* alone could keep the battery going But these are still only Te Aroha's trial gallops. We have other claims not yet tried that I have no need to particularly indicate which •will do more it is said than what has been done. A gentleman staying at Hamilton who has had considerable experience of mining in Queensland and New Guinea, and came without any great idea of being impressed, to look at the Napier claim of which I gave a short description in a former letter, paid a visit to the claim by himself and washed out a prospect from the leader on tha lower levol ; the result showing in diggers parlance "over a hundred colors," or to speak more plainly, as much as a grain of coarse gold to every ounce. He also crushed some of the stuff from the upper level I spoke of, and obtained a remarkably fine prospect. This more than confirms my good opinion of the claim, and he thinks of Te Aroha that if only one or two of these many promising claims should he worked there would be enough returned to fulfil all the original anticipations, and that there is enough in this range to make Te Aroha the richest goldfield in New Zealand, to say no more. The All Nations and the Marvel claims have not obtained any result worth mentioning from their samples sent m ; but there is no need for discouragement to them even in that fact, and certainly none for other claims. First attempts in all things, and more especially in goldmining, are proverbially likely to be failures, from the fact that the reef generally becomes richer the further in it goes. The Patiki paid us her usual visit on Saturday after a longer journey than usual. The Rev. W. Calder held service here yesterday in the morning, and Mr Norrie in the evening.— (May 9).