THAMES NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 297, 8 September 1888, Page 4

THAMES NOTES.

Thames, Sept. 6. ?.Jn -John I'nir.ups, Uo\eiiiinent Siugeon, lias tinivcd here, and commences the sun ey oi Lhc 'joiough nc\f< Monday. TlfE CHARTERS TOWERS COLD

FJELD. I lunc been >hown a letter iccehecl from two Thames iriinei^ who 101 l hoe a short time ago ioi Queen-land. On their arrival fit Ijridbane, the report-) fiom (Jympie were &o discouraging 1 thai they decided to give t.ha<" place »i wide bet th, and accoidinglyproceededon to (Jhui tei Heie they say that thenumbei of e\-Tluunesibes they came aciobs was ssoinotliing 1 enoinioiLs. Work was not \ery plentiful, tliere being at the time it was computed about 200 men out of employment. The weather too was very warm, anJ down the mines the temperature was excessively hot. The curient late of wages was £3 per week, but the letter states that ia the opinion ot the w ritei 7^ a clay at the Thames was fa i preieuiblc to the Chaiteis Towers wa<ce&. l*"rom this place they despatched a telegram t,o another ex-Tliamesite who is at Ethciidge jroldheld, and the reply they icceived wats of such a \ety encouraging nature that they weie on the point of leaving 1 foi that place. Ac the nominations of Councillors for the Middle Waid to-day the candidates were R. Comer, B. Woltf and T. Brown. The election takes place on the 13th.