[From a Correspondent.] We aro only just beginning to feel the effect of the great mining boom. I say great, for this is without doubt: the greatest of booms that New Zealand has ever had. , All other booms have come and gone, but there is no doubt that this boom has come here to stay. Mining in New Zealand.is now going to become a legitimate business -and the greatest of her industries, for there is no other industry that holds her hand out and helps all others along likemining, and especially gold mining. "We have been waiting and watching all other places having their turn of the boom, and wondering if we would eet a turn at all, but it has come at last There is an old saying ..';. give a dog a bad name and it will stick, to him" and it has been so with, .our Waiorongomai goldfield. However, as I have just said, our day has ; come, the boom is here, and it has come ; to, stay. Our King of reefs is .-.going? to j get a fair trial which it has never had before. It may be called the King of Beefs, for where is there another that stands out so bold, such a size, and for such a distance, looming up over the township for hundreds of feet, and outcropping on each successive,, spur' - until it reaches the old Premier mine,, a distance of nearly three miles, up; to which it can be traced without a. single break. The average width of the reef for that distance is 30 feet, very ■ few feet of which do 'not .carry gold,: if. ' assays are to be relied on. Nor does it end at the Premier, for it has been traced further on towards Waita'wheta, and the day is not far distant when it will be traced in to "Waitekauri, for

there is no doubt in my mind that the Waiorongomai and Waitekauri reefs are one and the same, and will one day be marked as a continuous reef right through. The New Zealand Exploration Com pany may well be proud of their property/ for they have nearly three mile's of this great reef running through • it, and they are already showing that they are well satisfied with their pros pect. 