Untitled

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 186, 14 May 1872, Page 3

A Revision Court will be held at the Court House, Grahamstown, on Friday, the 31st May, to revise the list of voters for the electoral district of the Thames. The adjourned meeting of Justices for hearing applications for publicans’ licences will be held at Shorthand at noon to-day, Iwhen the cases standing over from the last lannual licensing meeting will be disposed [of. | Several more natives weut up to Auckland lyestcrday, accompanied by Mr Grace, interpreter, to give evidence in the arbitration case now pending between Mr Lundon and Te -Moananui. : The Kauaeranga Highway Board met last evening, and appointed a deputation to wait |upon the Superintendent in reference to the iGovernment grant in aid of roads, etc., and 'also to confer with the Executive on the subject of the long-talked-of recreation 'ground. j We have been requested to state that in future the p.s, Golden Crown will start puncknally at the advertised hour, waiting for no (passengers whatsoever. Telegraph time will jibe adhered to. I Yesterday’s Auckland Star says—lt has Ibeen reported in town that alluvial gold has [been discovered in small quantities on the Reach at Coromandel, in the neighbourhood [of the Green Harp claim.

| Wc understand that the catering for the Naval Brigade ball has been intrusted to Mr Curtis of the Pacific Hotel, so that it is needless to say that it will be well done. The ball promises to be a very great success, and a very large number of invitations have already been issued. St. George’s Hall will be handsomely decorated by the members of the Brigade, and excellent music has been engaged. At the Police Court yesterday Jane Crick, charged with stealing money from the person of John Harris, was remanded until Wednesday, on the application of Mr Dodd, for the attendance of witnesses for the defence. John Williams, for assault, was hound over to keep the peace, himself in j £so, and two sureties of £25 each. Robert Easter, landlord of the Ancient Briton Hotel, (was charged with harbouring prostitutes, and with causing unnecessary delay in admitting constables into the house. On the application of Mr Tyler, the case was remanded until Wednesday. Hr Kilgour and j Mr Puckey were the sitting magistrates. Mr E. JToniss, Secretary to the Thames Goldfields Hospital, begs to acknowledge the following "subscriptions and donations : Rev V. Lush, Ll ; donation boxes, L 3 2s ; Proceeds of Mr Stidolph’s lecture, Ll 10s ; (0. Burton, 5s ; W. H. Hazard, IB ; ! McDonald and Miller, L2 2s; W. McCloughen, 'LI Is; Hugh Callin, Ll ; workmen Una G.M. Co., 9s JOd ; workmeu Alburnia G.M. I Co., L 4 13s 6d; workmeu Sliotover G.M. i Co., Ll 7s ; J. Cosgrave aud Co., L2 2s ; workmen Cornet G.M. Co., 17s ; Miners’ .Accident Relief Fund, L 25 ; workmen Moauataiari G.M. Co., L 5 10s; contractors iShotover G.M. Co., Ll 10s; John E. Hansen, Ll Is; Wesleyan Church, L 4 Os fid ; | Sergeant J. Gilpin (prize money), L2 ; St. | George’s Church, L 8 5s lid.

"VVc are informed that Mr W. Meikle, manager of the Mercury Bay sawmills, very kindly gave a handsome watch to be raffled for, the proceeds of the raffle (over £4O) to be given to William Smith, the poor fellow who met with a very severe gunshot injury, and whose arm was amputated by Dr Agassiz on the 16th of last mouth. Under Dr Agassiz’s care, Smith is progressing most favourably Cross. A very fine lump of auriferous quartz from the Bismarck claim was brought to Auckland, and exhibited at Mr Mowbray’s office, in Queen street, en Saturday morning. It caused great excitement among the holders of shares, and quotations went up to nearly the close of the market. The piece of stone was not so rich a specimen as that which was brought down from this claim some weeks ago, but it was still a magnificent sample, and well impregnated with the precious ore. Yesterday’s Ilcrald gives the following good advice to those playing at games in the Auckland Barracks :—We would warn competitors in football and other games played in the Albert Barracks not to leave any money or other property in their coat or waistcoat pockets when they leave those garments in the dressing-room for the better exercise of their muscles. One of the gentlemen playing in the football match on Saturday lost seventeen shillings from his waistcoat pocket, which ho had thoughtlessly left . in the room in question, not supposing there i; were thieves about.

The Bismarck still continues to turn out specimens, and the sides of the winze contain stone with large bands of gold plainly visible. Early yesterday morning a spirited offer of two thousand pounds was made by Mr. Scott, sharebroker, for five hundred shares, but the holder declined to part at the figure, and before night there were buyers at five pounds and even higher. The “ bears” were of course hard at work, and promulgated a story—just as the Auckland steamers were on the point of leaving—that there was little or no gold visible in the winze then. Gold is. however, to be taken out this morning. There was also a great spurt on the Golden Pali shares, and a pigeon was despatched to Auckland with regard to a further haul of specimens. Altogether, mining matters are exceedingly lively.—Coromandel Mail.

, The following summary represents the . number of cases and applications that have been heard by Charles Broad, Esq., It.M. and Warden in the Inangahua district, up to the 31 st of March last:—R'M. cases, 38; Warden’s cases, 145 ; applications, 1,071 ; goldmining leases, 105 ; agricultural leases (total area, 4,533 acres), 60 ; coal leases, 6. — Inanguahm Herald,

On Saturday night a free lecture was given by an itinerant lecturer, on the Market Square. Here he rigged a rostrum aud burnt a flaring oil lamp. The subject of his lecture was the manufacture of drinks—the object was the disposal of a two-shilling hand-book <Jf recipes, which he stated would enable any person to make his own spirits, wines, beers, &c., at a tithe of their present cost; and he was fully prepared to prove his words, for there, before the very eyes of the people, did he manufacture brandy, rum, and whiskey by the admixture of sugar and water, and a little other stuff from a particular bottle. The drinks were passed round, ancl we heard them highly commended on ali sides. Of course he had to stand a good deal of “chaff,” but this he seemed accustomed to, and nothing disturbed his equanimity. While he made his liquors he explained his method of doing so, aud dwelt especially on the value of the books which he had to sell, and which he did sell in great numbers. The exhibition being one of a novel kind, attracted a large crowd.— Herald.

A meeting of the subscribers to the Waikato Agricultural Show was held at the Duke of Cambridge Hotel, Cambridge, on Wednesday last. Mr James Runciman was voted to the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, said that the object of the meeting was to decide what should be done with the surplus funds, and called upon the Secretary to read the report and balance-sheet, which showed that, after paying prize-moDey aDd all expeuses, there was £4O remaining in hand. After some conversation, the Chairman stated that the committee thought of expending the surplus funds in giving prizes for the culture of beet, growing crops of wheat, barley, oats, aud linseed, in the following season. He also informed the meeting that there was a likelihood of a company being formed for the purpose of erecting a sugar-mill, if it could be shown that sugarbeet could be laid down on the river banks at a reasonable rate. Mr Pearson proposed that the surplus funds should remain in the hands of the committee. The motion was carried unanimously, and the meeting dissolved.— Wailtato Times.

“ What constitutes an independent newspaper 7” The Taranaki Herald asks the question, “ because a few journals in New Zealand, which oppose everything the Government does, whilst pluming themselves on their independence, display great inconsistency. A Government cannot always be right, neither can it always be wrong. The members which constitute it, for their own credit, use their best endeavours to make the colony progress, and to make the people prosperous ; therefore, a journal that persistently denounces a Ministry cannot be an independent newspaper. It is perhaps difficult to decide where independence begins and where it ends, and oceans of ink and reams of paper and disputes infinite might he saved, if wranglers avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end : since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when certain events have happened or things said, would be more than sufficient to prove that they never happened or were never said at all.”