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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2531, 15 February 1877, Page 2

The installation of principals of the Hauraki Royal Arch Chapter will take place at the Masonic Hall, Queen street, this evening, and the event will be celebrated by a banquet at the Governor Bowen Hotel.

Me M. Donoyan, who for more than five years has been engaged in the Provincial Government Offices, left the Thames j'esterday en route for Sydney. We believe that during the whole time he was omployed. in the Government Offices Mr Donovan gave great satisfaction to those' with whom he was connected, and was most painstaking and careful in the discharge of his duties as draftsman alid surveyor. A number of friends 'assembled at the Goods Wharf yesterday to say good-bye to Mr Donovan and wish him success wherever, he goes to. " "

Following closely upqn the hatch of_ forfeited leases at Tairua, a list of which appeared in our advertising columns yesterday, the Mining Inspector has determined upon a similar procedure in regard to the mines at Ohinemuri, many of which have not been worked for months. The following, we learn, will be amongst the first to be re-entered :—Ban-; yan, All Nations, City of Auckland,'. Mormon City, Democrat, Pai o Hauraki and Main Lead. It would tend I;o a more healthy state of things if t",e Mining Inspector would re-enter some of the unworked mine 3in this district, many of which are kept locked up by shareholders who have at various times received large amounts in dividends from the ground they now refuse to work.

Fboji Messrs J. H. Clough and Cos. Station Produce -Report and. Price list

we learn that the export of wool from Victoria from Ist October to the 24th January was 243,428 bales. Victoria must have arrived at that happy position so logically described by a contemporary " to cause a glut in the markets beyond its general requirements " when it can export a quarter of a million bales of wool in one season. Owing to the s.s. Rotomahana. being laid up to-morrow for cleaning, there will be no day boat to dr from Auckland until Saturday-. The Lalla Eookh or whatever boat runs in place of the Enterprise will, we believe, start at or about her ordinary times.

Up to half past three this afternoon 78 objections to the valuation of properly in the Borough, and three to property in the Waiotahi Highway District were lodged at the Assessment Court. There were also 24 appeals.against the Kauaeranga valuation. A number of these appeals embrace several properties, so that the actual number of objections to be heard for the Borough and the highway districts of Waiotahi and Kauaeranga will probably be about 2CD. ■ None appeared to have/been lodged against the Parawai assessment, and that -for the County is still incomplete.

Mb J. M. Cowell who has returned to the Thames, is now prepared to supply homoeopathic medicines either in single bottles or in cases containing from one up to five dozen bottles, as he lias just received a large supply of globules, pilules and tinctures of superior quality direct from England. Mr Cowell is: once more located at the corner of Rolleston and Sealey streets. .

The Thames is going down, is the cry on every hand, with but few exceptions, but there, are those who think that "There's life in the old dog yet," and among these are Messrs S. Mears & Co., who so far from being daunted at the present aspect of things have removed into the centre of the town so as to oblige all their customers the more readily. They have taken the Central Cash Store lately occupied by Mr.R. French, and are prepared to supply goods fro/n an egg to a side of bacon, at low rates with all articles which grocers vend, whose cost is between that of the edibles mentioned above. Parcels are delivered to all parts of the town, and.families waited on for orders. • ' . '