THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1873, Page 8

THE GOLDFIELDS.

OTAGO. ce T C A. tO tb^ au "f erOU3 of the Marewhenua district, the North Otago Times sajsr-We may safely say that the aeld contains 50,000 acres of good payable auriferous country ; and, indeed, old Yictonans who have visited it assert that finer Bluioiue ground they have never seen. It is Dot our intention to write anything which might induce a rush to the field, because there ia not room for many more miners than are now there until a sufficient Bupply of water is brought in to allow of operations being carried on on a more extended scale. But the fact remains, that with that supply of water at least a thousand men oould for years to come reap good results from their labour in mining at Marowhenua, and we are conviaced that the outWy of £40,000 or £50,000 in bringing in an ample supply of water would prove a handsomely remunerative investment."

THAMES. The Auckland correspondent of the ' Daily Times ' says :— " There ia more life and hope in the mining vtorld than for some months past. It is not without reason, for new mines are reported as «on gold ' every "week, and there is an end of sales ia them at all events. There are several at the Thames now paying tlxeir way, and whose shareholders nope to iind them improving, and may do so any day. The same applies to Coromandel. Rennet's battery is approaching completion there. It v one of the finest in the Colouy— perhaps the finest—and although of only 20 stampers, costs £3500. The stampers are of S cwt Ihe Exchange altogether is more frequented, and looks more lively than it has done for many a day." J