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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1781, 17 September 1874, Page 2

" Citoyen V letter is withheld for the present. It is advisable to refrain from comment under the circumstances. The Crown Prince Company got a yield of 311 ounces retorted gold from 425 tons of stone. This is the result of a month's crushing -with 20 head stampers, and the first from the low level workings. It has scarcely turned out »b well ns was expected. A WOTII'ICATION appears in the Gazette altering the limits of the Port of Shartland and changing the name to Port of Thames; the appointment of the Hob. Harry Albert Atkinson to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Colony, Secretary for Crowa Lands, Lands Claim.. Commissioner and Minister for Immigration is gazetted. Bx proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette of Sept. 18, the felkming blocks of land in the District of Hauraki, Queen's County, are withdrawn from the operation of the sixth section of " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1873:"—Opango, 1000 acres j Hotoritori, 523 acres; Hihi and Piraunui, 6,755 acres. (The sixth section provides for lands over which native title has been extinguished and all difficulties thereon being declared waste lands of the Crown,, subject t© the operation Of Provincial land l»w». „ „.-.■ A paisb alarm of fire was given last night in Shortland, about half-past eight or nine o'clock. There did not appear to be any cause for the alarm, and as regards the: Shortland bell, it was rung by a lad because he heard some one say that he heard some one say that he had heard the bell in Grahamatown ringing, and that was a definite assumption to go on. Although promptitude. in the case, of iire, however small, ii commendable, still these false alarms are anything but desirable and cause serious annoyance. ,:.