TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1703, 5 June 1883, Page 2

TE AROHA .

7 * Mining. ■ _ Prkmiek.— ln this mine the hands are still employed in putting up the rise pn No. l; A reef, and the qn\rtz coming <td hand* continues to lie of the samo ripjj.character which is found in the level? ' Tlie v formation of the hopper is prom-ess ing with all possible despatch, and will soon be ready. - Colonist. — The quarU Inoken in sinking the wiiue' still shoe's gold'freeiy, and will be certaiu to crush well. Nkw Fimj. — Work underground is for the present suspended. The contract for the tramway and shoot will be let luring the week. Either v.— The low le\el t'nve has now reached to within about J8 feut of the point wheic the use to meet the wiuA) is commenced. About four feet of the rrcf yields quartz in which gold is frequently visible throughout, and it is estimated to be worth at least loz per ton. "\YiuiAHiKO.--The hands aie all em ployed iv the formation of the tramway, hopper and shoot, but the work has been retaided on account of the late lainy weather. MoA.—The diive on the icef, from which the good prospect was got from silver ore, is still being pushed ahead, and the quait/ piesents the same highly mineralized character. A 3econd sample of the ore which was sent to Auckland to be tested will piove if the value .still continues. "Wo have not yet been acquainted with the result. Lucky Kit.— The hands are employed in shipping the leef at the low level, .md in prospecting a large body of quartz was found near the boundary of the Virginia City. Wr.LCOMii. — Another crushing is being bioken out, and the looks equal to the parcel w Inch yielded the lich return. WiYIOIIOMiOM U COMI'AVY. — TllCfO IS a paity ot nun emMged m prospecting a icef near the boundaiy of the Inverness, and .no tiacmg gold by following the icef from that giounu. Imi.km.ss,— Missis McKen/.io and Clements an- fitill taking out hrbt-olass stone fiom the leef at the low le"el. The hoise of ni'illock which parted the reef is apparently getting less, and the qn.uU is picbcntmg a mote solid appearance. There are two distinct runs of gold, ono on either of the mullock hoises, and gold is showing m the quaitz in siu-h quantities that a j ieicl of 200/ C. to the ton ib expected. The owneis have decided to Svinl down a few tons to be treaced as soon a? it can be conveyed on the ttamway.

The Sharemarket, Sales — New Find, 2s Oil. Colonist, 2s Id. Wnioioiigoiriii, Is. Slllkks— New Find, 2, Od. Welcome, halt share (ono-sKbictli) -C-iO. Cniadian, Is. Veimont, half sliaro (ono-thh tieth) £10. R. G. Mackv. ] Bloker , John Bullock, j Te Aioha, June 2nd, 1853. The tiamway works arc proceeding with all li.istc. Mi Adams has got the whole of the rails and m.itcml up as far as the bottom of Butlei's Spin gtade, and expects to h<i\c the rails laid on that incline in eight oi nine days. The Te Aioha Licensing Committee held their annu.il meting in the Warden's office on Satin day, the second of June. New license? wei c gi anted to Alexander Hoany for the Litdilicld Hotel, Patetere, and to Alfred Ashley for the Piemier Hotel, Waiorongomai. The applications of J. B. Kihcin and Edwin Hadlield for licenses for new houses to be built at Waiorongonni wcie lefused, the bench being of opinion that theie was no immediate necessity for more than two hotels m that township at present. The chairman, however, stated that the committee would be pleased to hear that further accommodation would be required owing to an influx of population, and called attention of the applicants to the fact that the Te Aioha CJoldfield was a special licensing distiict, and thtit the Resident Magi&tta-te, Mr Keuiick, had the power to grant special licenses at any time dining the yeai if such were neeessaiy. The application of Mr Touge for a new license for his premises adjoining Quintan's Hotel was lefuscd, the bench expiebsmg an opinion that the number of hotels at Te Aioha was sufficient for present wants, and that future applicants should be required to provide equal, if n t superior accommodation to the houses at picacnt licensed in Te A roll a. Renewals wete gt anted to John All wood, Robin Hood and Little John Hotel : Patrick Qtimlaii, British Hotel ; John W. Walker, Walkei's Hotel; and John Coleman, Hot Springs Hotel, at Te Aroha. Also, to Thomas Lawless, Waioioiisjomai Hotel, YVaioiongoirmi : and Cornelius McManus, Oxfoid Royal Hotel, Oxford. The bench imposed a condition on all licensees who had two-storey buildings, that a sufficient number oi fiie-c&capes should be pio\ided in the hist floor rooms, and also that in all cases suitable closets and urinals should be erected and kept thoroughly clean and disinfected on liccn&cd premises. — (Own Coriespoudent, June 2nd )