A Thames Miner.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 5

A Thames Mine r.

A Thames miner, who has just returned from a six months' sojourn on the Australian goldhelds, shares in the often-expressed opinion of Auckland miners who have returned from those regions, that he would sooner work for one pound a week on the Auckland goldfields than tor three times the amount on the Austialian goldiiekta. He says that many of the much-lauded reeling districts in Aufefcralia, Mich as. Tetulpa and othera, are far inteiiol to the Thames or Coromandel district. A battery erected at Tetulpa proved thi&, the average yield being only a feu pennyweights and ounces were expected. The battery lias reduced the population ab well as the quartz, there being only » few hundred miners left out ot several thousand who were there bix months ago. After leaving Tetulpa he vi&itcd Broken Hill and counted lit teen funerals in one day, all victims of the typhoid scourge. He fied. Ho reports* that the press throughout Australia devoted columns to the Broken Hill Mavototo swindle. Even the little sheet published at Tetulpa devoted the chief portion of its space to the last swindle worked on the Thames goldfields. It is to be hoped in connection witb this that all future negotiations regarding our mines will be such as to create confidence in the minds of all investors, and that everything possible shall be done to give them a feeling- ot security in dealing- with our mining properties. This is absolutely necessary, as it is evident that we are dependent on foreign a capital to work our mines.

A shipment foy London was lately made of 20,900 bars, or 1,050 tons of Broken Hill silver-lend, worth l'sO a ton. A Bashful Proposal. — MrDacey — " AJary Ann !" JSii&s Flynn — *' Jffwhat is it, Conn Piieoy?'' Mr Dacey —• ' Doan' ye t'ink Father McGvuth ud lie gettin' lonesome wid th' slathbis o' funerals he's been havin 5 afc the chorch ?"