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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4590, 20 September 1883, Page 2

The dam being built yesterday afternoon at the No. 1 level of the Caledonian shaft, in in order to cut off the draught s from the fire in tbe stopes, was finished in the evening, and the No. 2 shaft re-covered. The manager today had a staff of men engaged stopping up all the places possible through which air could reach the fire, and has go far succeeded that very little smoke is now coming to the surface. The smell from the burning wood, however, still pervades the workings, and the Golden Crown men could not go to work last night or to-day; The men are working in the 640 feet south crosscut, the air there .being now cooler than before the fire., The Waiotahi mine is, also free^PoF gas," and there now being-a strong current of gooi air entering the mine, both from tbe Manukau winze and the old United shaft, the men were able to resume work this afternoon. The wiiizeis to be closed, temporarily at least, and this mine should then be unaffected by the fire, as it is well ventilated from other shafts.

The following telegram was posted at the Corner tbis afternoon from the Moanafcaiii;— "No. 9, 132 ft., produced 401bs. good stone ; gold showing.—J. G. Viviaw."

Bx a telegram appearing in an jther column it will be seen that the Te Aroha team of footballers are assiduously practising and mean to bring victory homa with them from the Thames on Saturday next. The local kickista should try and avert such a result.

These was no business done iv the Police Court to-day.

AmonGSE the goods that arrived in Auckland from America, by the mail steamer on Monday, was a new water-wheel for Mr W* Bull, of Karaka, who intends to use it for battery purposes. At a late trial of wheels in U.S.A., this wheel is stated to have given 96 per cent, of the theoretical power, beating all other competitors by more than 12 per cent. One of these wheels has-been also ordered for Karangahake by Mr Adam Porter.

The pedestrian Edwards arrived in Dunedin yesterday from Melbourne to fulfil his matches with young Scott. '

It is understood that a final decision as to which Minister will represent New Zealand at the Annexation Conference in Sydney will be made this week.

Tee New Zealand Shipping Company are advised by cable that the British Queen arrived at the Cape on September 18, en route for Port Chalmers. The company's clipper Waimea has arrived at London from Wellington, —all well.

Robbbt Goldikg, a youth in Auckland, has been committed for trial on a charge of larceny, and on two charges of breaking and entering. Golding moved, in a respectable position, and would, never have been suspected, v

The directors of tbe Union Steamship Company, after carefully considering all the circumstances attending the recent atranding of the Rotomahana, and taking into account the favorable finding of the Court of Inquiry, and the immunity of accidents enjoyed by Capt. Carey during the lengthened period he has commanded the company's steamers, have decided to re-instate him in his position in | the service. They have, however, issued a circular to their masters notifying that they wish it to be clearly understood that they i regard it as a master's first duty to consider the safety of the valuable ship and lives under his charge, and that they have therefore ' resolved that in any future caße of Btrariding ! the responsibility will be thrown entirely upon the mas>er, and he will rot be' reinstated in the service unleß3 the accident is proved (o have occurred under such exceptional eircumstanco9 as exonerates him from blame. A MEETING of the shareholders in the Ohinemuri Coal Prospecting Association was I held on Tuesday afternoon in. Auckland, Mr ' 1 Adam Porter presiding. Mewri Play all, Bell, land Porter were appointed ft Committee to obtain all necessary information, and engage a good authority to report on tthe coal-produc-ing prospects of the district. \, How to Cta Sick.—Expose jourself day; and night, eifc too much without eiercue,"' work too hard without rest, doctor all the.tiaie, 'take all tbe ?ile nostrums advertised, and.then you will want to know _, *•-.'* > How to G-bi WbiTi—Wbich is answered in three wordi—3M» Hop ftttere! Scad,

A MESMNO of the Auckland Stugby Unloa Football Association was held last night, Mr Croktoa presiding. A draft letter was agreed to for transmission to the Wellington Union It requested the Wellington Union to state definitely what they considered the result of the late match between Auckland atid Wellington, if Wellington claims a win the Aucklanderß desire the claim to be referred to the Southern Unions, which should be asked to sit jointly or separately ag might be arranged, and the Auckland Union would pledge itself to abi de by their decision. It is hoped, in the letter, that the Wellington Union will view the matter in a different light to Wellington newspaper reports, and announce the match as a draw, when the recent disagreeable episode will be speedily forgotten. !Ts3 Doric is not to go on to Dunedin this trip, but only as far as Lyttelton. Her Dunedin cargo is being transhipped into the Wairarapa. The whole of the single women brought by the vessel have got situations, and the Depdt is now empty. . ». Thk Secretary of the Marine Department Has received information from ; , the Harbor. master at Westport that [the erection of a flagstaff and beacon ,on the south spit* at that port is completed, and will be used for general signalling purposes on and after to-day. \

Woodteae's circus opened in Auckland last night with a crowded house of about 3000. At the; close of the season they will make a tour-of the whole colony. The.;,use of the electric light in mines is extending in the Sandhurst, Victoria, district. The Ellenborough Company has saved £150 by its use in nine months. Miss Webb, sister of the noted swimmer, Captain Webb, who was drowned at Niagara, who has lately been living at tha Cape,became frantic on hearing of her-brother's death, and drowned heself. The Herald's correspondent in Christchurch writes :—" Ihe Times says that, after reading the various reports of the football match at Wellington, the (statements at the Auckland dinner, and those of the Wellington umpire and the referee, as published in the New Zealand Times, therß is no possible doubt that Wellington fairly won the match, and that Henderson had no shadow of right to claim a draw. It considers the action of the Auckland team is akin to the " win, tie, or wrangle" policy. If Mr Henderson's statement of the arrangement about the umpires having each absolute control of half of the ground is correct, he must have made a different agreement with the Wellington captain to what he did at Christohurek and Dunedin. As a matter of fact, during the match here the Auckland umpire left his side of the ground at one period, and both umpires Btood side by side. The arrangement- hero and in Dunedin was that the uenpiras should stop any infringement of the rules, but there was nothing s^id about either umpire's ruling being placed beyond reach of challenge or appeal to the other umpire, as appears to have been the case in Wellington, according to your.captain's version of the dispute. I see this is denied in Wellington."