A Voice from Auckland.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4311, 25 October 1882, Page 2

A Voice from Auckland.

SNOOKS, HIS SENTIMENTS:

SILVER A/T KABAFGAHAKE

During the past week a series of tests .have been made ofethe value of the stone from the Karangahake district, and the results are such as to justify the belief that a new industry will soon be established in that district, to wit mining for silver, which is quite as,-and generally more, profitable than gold mining. Some of the tests have yielded as much as 236 ozs of silver and 20ozs of gold to the ton. This, of course, is fire test, but when it is known that in the different mining centres of America this test is taken as the value of the area?, and' mill owners purchase them at so much per cent., in some cases as high as 20 per cent, being given on the assay test, the balance being the profit to the mill, owner, who, of course, has a direct benefit in saving as large a percentage as possible, instead of getting so much per ton as is hitherto the case in Thames mining. Such is the faith in the future of the Karangahake districts by some of our Auckland capitalists that an offer has been made to erect powerful machinery for the extraction of the precious metals, provided certain work is done in opening up and further testing the value of the reefs already cut in that district, which your Grahamstown mining authorities have thought so little of and so long neglected; and the amount of apathy shown by the business men of the Thames in trying to develop the mineral resources of the district is something astonishing, seeing it is all they have to depend on.

THE THAMES BAIiVWAY.

Let us hope they will take better to the railway business, of which I fear they will make a mess, especially when the provisional directors don't seem to have faith to the amount of 300 ten shilling shares. Surely ten esquires should be good for £15 per head. Why Dr Kilgour, whose name is not on the directory, would spend that amount himself, and why he is not one of the directors is a mystery, as be has done more towards the work than any other man of the Thames. I believe^ if set about rightly a lot of shares would be taken up here, but I suppose it is too good a thing to divide.

THE GUBLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Have you got a spare charge of dynamite in your office ? if so, please send it up here and blow up the horrible building known as the Girls' High School. If this is not done soon there will be some more sections taken up in Symonds street (cemetery I mean), as the building is in a disgraceful state, and ought to be improved off the face of the globe, for the benefit of the boarders and pupils generally.

BOUGH ON HABBIED MEN,

"We hare sereral sensations on hand at present, the first being the Contagious Diseases Act. Just fancy a lady in high places making use of the expression that the only way to keep the married men right and proper was not to let the but come into force. Rather a low opinion to have of the morals of the married men ot Auckland!

HETEEODOXT V. OBTHODOXY

Mr B. Cass, of the flat earth doctrine, is hitting some of our revs, rather hard; his reply to the Eev. Hodson is a clincher.

FLOATING COMPANIES FLAYED " OV¥.

Floating companies has come to an end at present, as the late attempt! have ail

been failures. The promoters in several instances wanted the lion's share for sticking in the pegs. AUCKLAND HABBOE. Have you seen the proposed alterations in our harbor. When they are completed the accommodation will be nearly as ox* tensive as yours. They talk of shifting the dock. Here is a chance for your sturdy beggars ; borrow the dock and its author's cash, and thus relieve Auckland of an eyesore.