THAMES, [from our own Correspondent.]

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 349, 9 March 1889, Page 2

THAMES, [from our own Correspondent.]

Tfames, Wednesday. Mining : The Saxon Company have had? another highly satisfactory cleaning up« ! and retorting ; the past fortnight's operations having resulted in the excellent return 0f4290zs 14dwts- melted gold from 342 loads of quartz and 30lbs picked stone. This makes the total yield forth c month Bl7ozs 14dwts gold from 674loads of quartz, which, it is needless tosay, is more than payable, and leaves a handsome margin of profit. The monthly retorting for fche Waiottilii Company on Monday last produced 2280zs of «olil From 190 tons of quartz.. This is quite equal to former returns, and was reduced on melting to 225i>zs lOdwts*

Thames, Thursday. Gunner P. Weir, of the Naval Artillery, is the only representative from the* Thames who will take part in the Forthcoming meeting 1 cf the New Zealand* Rifle Association at Blenheim. The Licensing Committee's for the Borongh and County have held thfir first meetings and elected Chairmen for the enduing year. A question of some importance has arisen amongst the three Committee's for the Borough, viz. : whether the licenses shall be for 10 or 12 o'clock. At the joint meeting there were seven Commissioners present oat of nine, and six of them distinctly stated that thpy were in favour of only 10 o'clock licenses being granted, whereas hitherto the majority of the hotels havebeen allowed to remain open until midnight. The further consideration of the matter, however, has been postponed, until the annual meeting in June next>, when a joint conference on the question will be held. At the meeting of the Harbour Boar- 1 on Tuesday, a letter was read from Mr Warden Northcroft, asking whether thaji. body approved of the terms and conditions upon which the Hidden Treasure special claim, on the foreshore, had been, granted to Mr W. Fraser, M.H.R. Some discussion took place regarding the matter, in the course of which it was stated that Sir Julius Vogel intended, endeavouring to float the ground into a Company in London. The Act provided that no mining operations could be carried on within 50ft of the surface, but it was pointed out that the Board had .seemed the foreshore to some of the local Friendly Societies for money borrowed from them. It was decided to refer the matter to the General Purposes Committee to report as soon as possible. The following entties have been received in connection with the Thames Jockey Club's Autumn meeting on l^th inst. at Parawai :—: — - Thames Handicap Steeplechase.-— Nolans Huntsman ami Waterloo, N.. Dickey's Volunteer and Flora, BtarreH 4 \s Messenger. Waterford's Tairua, J. Me Williams' Prospector, and P. J. PeriryV Whalebone. Pony Raee — Reihana's Little Nell> P. B irry's Nigger, N. Dickey's Play Boy, S. M ears' Mystery, S. H .lcrow's Signess, Ngahi ILipeta's Dynamite, . Haora Tareranui's Piatch. During the present week fully QOOozs of gold have been banked, which ishighly satisfactory. The principal yields which go to make up this amount are : Saxon, 4290zs 141wts ; Waiotahi, 2250zs lodwts ; New Mauukau, 45nza sdwts ; G'tn, 120>»zs ; while nearly 10 v oozs have been banked by tributers in various mines.

Edison promi^e^ .0 put his latest invention, the phonograph, to a curious and practical u^e. It is his intention to furnish to Bul|s(iiil)ers a talking daily ne«v«paper, The little instrument will he charged with a condensation of the news of the day, and each suhsciiber can lntea to it white at breakfast, -