THAMES. [From our own Correspondent.] Thames, Thursday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 8

THAMES. [From our own Correspondent.] Thames, Thursday.

The following: crew' 1 '! as entered fop the' 'Champion WhaleboaWace, to be -rowed «at the Auckland Regatta on the* 29th finsb :— W. Rolton (coxswain), Johnston • f(2), GaHa«?h.r,'and Rolton (2). r The, ( cre\v for th« Naval CutCer :race are prac- . , tisjnsj daily. v ■ , • - The schooner Orpheus is now loading 50,000rt of kahikutea al Bag.naU's JWJI,, lor Lyttelton. i) * '.'.** ' ••' '. I Sunday was the hottestday experienced here this'summer. ., IV th.er.Kriometej.vJn the shale registered '86, a/nd in, an ,'iipstairs room 92. , h) *-ssrs Price, Bros., our local founders, have been, kept busily engaged for some .time past manufacturing machinery f.or the Te Aroha G. , and S. M. C 0.,, .Waiorongomai, They have completed ( U pans a'ud .other machinery , to the prder of that company, being about 40 .tons of machinery altogether, which T sliQuld reach Te Aroha in.a.day ox.two, .as they left here yesterday. ..» # ,- j . The annual meeting ,of the parish-, ioners of fSt. George's, Episcopalian | -Church .was'sheld on Wednesday, night. /i;ije balance-sheet .gbowed ,'that' the re- j oeipts for the year amounted to £557, 25 » 4 4d, and the expenditure .£524 3s 3d,' leaving a .balance,, in hand of £32 13s ,7d. Officers were .elected as.jlolloyss :: — • -Minister^ Warden, „Mr ..Gerring ; People's 1 . Warden, Mr Honiss ; Vestry, Messrs Jng ram, Fenton, Jarvis, Ryden, and Lush. It was resolved . that the /Vestry should be authorised to proceed '•with the building of a new parsonage,' ,the cost not to exceed, £350- , The new (Pension Fund scheme adopted at the recent meeting of the Diocesan Synod, ,\vas brought forward and discussed, but it was decided to leave the matter in the ,liands of the Vestry .to act as they might j deem desirable. , , >•>. > , The Burns' Club, which was inaugur-' nted la^t year ,and has become- a very juipular institution, has now entered upon ( the second jear ,of its exisven.ce., There 'are ab,put 150 members.. , ; ,Mr'Fra^er,M.k.Eu for this district, has pegged out an area of 10Q-. acreSj as special claim o^ the fqreshpre,. for"which aipplic,ation will be made, to the ■Warden at the, pext -sitting, of the Warden's Court. Rumour has it .that a i former well known member of the Legislature, who is at, present, i,n London, is, interested in the ve.ntuie.,> The improvement ia mining matters continues, and there are,sjgns of a slight' .revival in this branch of industry. ,' T.he ,Saxon ,00. continue to obtain a few pounds of .picked stone occasionally from the Iqw level, (No. 5) V , and the .crashing: is shaping for, a good return, ,there being now o.ver 6750zs of awalga-m' on hand. Cleaning up and retorting for the fortnight will take place next Monday. j There seems a likelihood of the Trenton mine also corning to the front short]/, as it is probable , that operations w»*£ at an -early .date Jbe cqmmenqed from thejfiaxon .shaft, as the,, latter, Qomrany pav»:ied payable gold up ,to tl^ Trenton bqimdary. The T^"aiotah.i, jN"uw Manukau, Camhiia,. are prqduuing quavtz of payable grade, ityit present no change to report, At the. paroquet Co.'s battery,* .which .has, been grqatly imfproved, has ,ha 1 a satisfactory prelimin_ary trial, when the whole of the machinery was found to work very smoothly. There is not, much work proceeding in ,the mines in „this district pending, this battery commencing .the reduction of quartz. i#i , , , (I iVli's Robt. Comer has purchased the Herald battery, on the fores.hore, i]©r i£4so. .' , , , Mr Chappell, a gentleman from Sydney, inteiested ,in Mr Loc,kwopd's o! gold extraction fiom our refractory ores, is negotiating for the purchase from Air Comer of the old [lookey, wliich the former recently acquiied for, £140. , , The following crew has been selected *o iejjre.«-pnt the N,ival Artillery in the Naval Cu.ttpr race nt the Auckland Repitta,: Messrs Brownlee, Dare, Newman. 3\fcLpan, .foiU'S, Henderson, Morrison, '^iillett, Bond, Bruce, Kirby, Wilson, ati.l Fitullay. ; , The annu il meeting of the members of St. James,' Presbyterian, Church was J;eltj 911 V'ednesd.ay evening. The jeceipts for. the year were £370 Is lid, jtntl the expendiinre. £35b 6s 6d, leaving u credit I'uluucG of £11 , 15s sd. , The )ollowjnj< were elected , a committee fof the , .ensuiinif year: — Messrs Carnie, McGow;en,,,Frater, Clark, Reid, Crawionl, Fer^u-pn, Boles, .JDarrpw, Brady, Craig, -and McQuade. ((• i\jLi Albert ( iJurdfft, who was forseveral yejir.s a sfoi-pkeeper.at .Pnriri. and is w< j ll known, to, many of your readers, has feiunicd, fron^ Silvertq'u „

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