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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 4

When a man takes a ‘night cap’ it would appear the most natural tiling in the world for it to go to his head. It seem* appropriate for two men t iking ‘eye-openers' t igethcr to remark : ‘ Here’s looking at you.’ Daniel Purcell, a-ked to make a pun impromptu, asked, ‘on what subject?’ ‘Oh, any subject the k ng.' * Ah, but the king is no subject,’ was the prompt rep’y. Regarding the Arawata and the summer weekly service f oin A ickland to Sydney, a Sydney exchange says :—“ New Zealanders in Sydney—a numerous part of the communitv—always look fonvatd to this weekly service with an amount of pleasure. The tr de from New Zealuud both as to cargo and i assenger support, has oeveloped very materially ot late years, and this has been due, to a veiy large extent, to the excellent boa's the Union Company has frrm time t» time pla ed on the line from Sydney. What would be desirable, of course, though perhaps a little selfish, is that the best boats at the uommand of the Company be employed in this trade. Toe Ringarooma and Arawata, sister shins, enjoy a wide reputation as first class steamers, but they are comparatively antiquated in some respects as compared with the Tar wtra and Wairarapa the Rotomahana, and the M mapouri, to say nothing of the Mararoa, wbic h is probably the mo-t handsome and best appointed steamer in the intercolonial steam trade.”

1 In thanking the Thames Borough Coun- * cil for re electing h'm a- its representative on the Drainage Board on Saturday last, 1 Mr J. McGowan thus referred to the future outlook of the Thames go dfield “ The prospects for t‘ie luture of the mining industry were very hopelul ; the gold in the borough alone in the last year had been 20.00<)oz, and if the rate during the last quarter was kept up for the next three, the output next ye«r would be 24.000" z. The Big Pump was now pumping 100 feet deeper, and he hoped by the end of the year they would be able to go still another 100 feet, when the Council, he trusted, would feel disposed and be in a i osition to give Borne substantial assistance towards working the Thames deep levels.” Mr Gordon, Mining Inspector, who left Wellington for the North o s Friday last, is fn route, for the Puhipuhi silver field, chiefly with the object of reporting as to the advisability of granting any extension of prospecting licenses in the Puhipuhi Forest. He has also received instructions to obtain as much information as possible concerning the value of the reported silver diacoveri. s. In the meantime, it is understood that any person fund prospecting at Puhipuhi without a license will be prosecuted, one or two pases of trespass having already been rej oorteu to the Government.