THAMES. [From our own Correspondent.]

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 2

THAMES. [From our own Correspondent.]

11 ' Thames, Monday. Capt. Cqjvard, tho * n&wly appointed manngeY'tff the Crown 6r.M. Oo'a mine, Karanj^a'hake, mid who recently arrived there with Mr HiVtdliihsbn, the Company's engineer, has "completed his inspection I ' of the mmo and Railley's plant, and expresses himself 1 satisfied with the prospects of the mme 1 antl* the district generally. Tlie pulviMisuig machinery is on board the s.s. Tainui, which should arrive iv Auckland about the 15th "inst., when 'the plant will bo forwarded toKarangahake as soon as possible and a start at once made with itserr-ction. ' Mr McArthur, Technical Manager for The Cassel Gold Extracting Co., is now on his' way here from Queenslund, and should arrive shortly, to' {superintend the erection of the plant. In the" Crown mine driving is now proceeding upoii'tne reef, which is fully 3ft. in thickness, and colours o/ $old are freely seen when breaking down, while tho oi c also carried a fair percentage of sulphides of 'silver. Operations will piobably be commenced up6n 'i\ larger scale at an early date. Hero ati the Thames mining on the whole shows a slight improvement. As the result of three week's 'work the manager of the Waiotahi Company has hanked 1740zs gold 'from 100 tons of quarts, which is more' than payable, while the New Manukau Company has obtained 26ozs from 20 tons quartz, being the result of operations for a similar period. This latter return 1 is' barely payable. The Saxon crushing is shaping well, 22 head of stampers being kept continuously employed, and in the Cambria Company mine work was to-dny started in l ,he footwall of the reef, from which the rich patch some time n»o was obtained, t At Waiomo, the Paroquet Company (which is now principally owned in Melbourne) is making repairs to, an I alterations in the batiory. which will not be completed for about a month, ami in the 'meantime work has been suspended in this and also the Gem Company's mine. There is 'nothing New to leport from Puriri or Marototo. The local Lodges of Foresters have decided to hold their annual picnic at j Coronmmlel on the 18th oF next month. Lieut, Colonel Shepherd is at present here, and to-i'lay issued' l emission certificate? to those who "recently proved their claims to land scrip! A man named George Mason was arrested at Paeroa on Saturday on a charge of obtaining money u<«id(?r false pretences. A #ooil deal of interest, is evinced in the election of seven members to the Thames Drainage Board, which takes place on Saturday. The following nominations lmve be.»n reeeivea : — J. M. Lennox, R. Conner, S. Turtlt»,T. Mnrrin, ;Jas. Frater, W. S. Wilson, F. A. White, «J. J. Mucky, and ft. Spratt. The recently formed Plauraki Rowing Club now has a membership of over GO.