THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3832, 9 April 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881.

" The Haven Goldmining Company swindle " has been agitating the mining men of this place and Auckland during, the past week. Our readers have already been placed in possession of all particulars obtainable, and it is evident, from what has been discovered here, that the British public are being gulled by a clever lot of swindlers. That the bogus company excited some interest at Home is testified by a member of the London Stock Exchange cabling some time ago for particulars concerning it to a resident here, "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," and we think that a few of our capitalists and financiers might draw a valuable lesson from the success which has no doubt attended the manipulations of the London sharpers. Money is very plenJafiil- iii- -Eng'land^jusb ioWj and -\yc -feel certain that a big company to work a large area of ground here could be floated with ease. The Caledonian, Calf, and adjoining mines could amalgamate their areas, and with the introduction of foreign capital'the Big Pump shaft could be put down another 600 or 700 feet, and the deep levels par ' excellence, prospected. When we look at the wonderful result which has attended deep level prospecting in Victoria and elsewhere, we should surely gain courage to try if -our's are nofe equally valuable. * The theory of alternate strata of golden and nonauriferous, ground is universally believed in, and the Thames people should not sit down in despair because no gold was found at the 640 feet level. "Will not C. J. Stone, or some other of our mining capitalists, take this important matter up ?