MOKIHINUI.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1206, 11 December 1882, Page 2

MOKIHINUI.

♦ (From the Westport Times). I am able to inform you that prospecting is the order of the day in this locality. The South Pacific, Star of the * South, and Better Late Than Never Companies on south side of river, are havingitheir properties well searched for the reefs that are known to exists in them; the Red Queen Co. is going in for prospecting on a more extensive plan of driving along the line of reef i from the outcrop, which shows gold freely. On the north side, the Golden Crown and Comet claims have men testing their ground fully. The former claim has got the reef showing gold. The Guiding Star men are erecting huts, preparing machine site, &c. There ; is evidently no lack of enterprise or perseverance, as it is certainly the intent ion of the owners of the different pro- ' perties to have them fully opened before winter sets in, if possible. It certainly is the opinion of visitors from other mining localities, and men who are competent to form an idea, that we are on the eve of a prosperous career, and that our district will be second to none in New Zealand. We want the means of egress and ingress and till that is supplied, in the shape of a good metalled road, or eventually a railway, (which we hope to see at no distant date) will the vast resources of this district lie dormant.