THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1872.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 August 1872, Page 2

THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1872.

Despite of rather depressed times on this goldfield, there must be something doing in the sharebroking line, otherwise the noble band of brothers comprising that fraternity would not be asking for an additional telegraph wire between the Thames and Auckland. Business must be brisk with them, at any rate, and we look upon the action they have taken in the matter as an - evidence that there is a great deal of vitality in the field. We have no doubt, if the authorities at Wellington are convinced that an extra wiie will pay, that the work will be put in hand forthwith, and, according to the sharebrokers’ version of the matter (and they ought to know, for they are about the best customers to the telegraph), there can be no doubt that the undertaking would be a payable one. We look upon this movement as one indicative ot a healthy state of things at the Thames. On the other hand, there is the fact that many are leaving the place for New South Wales, at the same time that a large and extensive system of forced immigration is being adopted by the Government. There are certainly some curious anomalies hers just now. Almost everybody says business is very dull, and that next to nothing is doing; yet the sharebrokers want an extra wire to transmit their messages between here and Auckland. Miners are leaving the field (in their own phraseology “giving it best”), and taking themselves oft' to Tambaroora and elsewhere, and yet immigrants are imported. These facts certainly involve a curious jumble of circumstances, and we believe the balance is on the right side, aiid despite of a little temporary depression that this goldfield is sound at the core. The expense of stretching an extra wire to Auckland cannot be very great, and the evidence before us would certainly warrant the conclusion that it would be a reproductive work, which is a very great deal more than cau be safely predicted of some of ihe public works now in course of construction or contemplation. It may be that much unnecessary delay now takes place in the transmission of telegraphic messages, which might be obviated without going to the expense of an extra wire, and the meeting recently held on the subject will call attention to the matter if it does nothing more. There is roomfor improvement in the telegraphic department, as well we know, for some of the messages we receive are nearly unintelligible, have almost always to be re-written, and take an amount of trouble to be put into shape which is really disgrace!ul. In fact, unless a man were somhweat conversant with the run of events, he could not possibly make out one-half of the messages that are received. We trust the result of the meeting lately held at the Governor Bowen Hotel, if it does not result in the stretching of an extra wire, will at all events lead to an improvement in the administration of the telegraph department, so far as the Thames is concerned.