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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4654, 4 December 1883, Page 2

On Friday last a tour of inspection of the district was commenced by the Chief Mining Inspector (Mr G-ordon\ under the guidance of the County Engineer (Mr Aitken). On Friday they proceeded to Karangahake, for the purpose of considering the line of country to be adopted in making tracks from that district towards Waiorongomai. On the Bame day Owharoa and Waihi were visited, in order that information affecting the laying out of money under the Gold fields' Vote for roads and tracks might be obtained. On Saturday the Waihi and Waitekauri gold miaes, and the coal seam at Tarariki, were inspected by the same officers, and on Monday Otunui and the head of the Wa iotahi were visited. To-day, accompanied by Or Murdoch, the visitor and the County Engineer "did" the Karaka and Tararu Creeks, inspecting en route the Tararu Extended mine and battery —in charge of Mr Stead man—and Brown's tailing plant. Many of the observations made by the Inspector will doubtless be of use on Southern fields. We have -received the first number of "Land," a journal published in Auckland, which professes to be interested in landed and house property, and a monthly register of the Estate Exchange. Should it carry out all the promiaes made in the initial number, and we have no doubt that it will, a very valuable publication will be the result. It undertakes to Bupply information in relation to land, housebuilding, agriculture, sanitary arrangements, &c, and invites letters on all subjects connected with land and the dwellers on it. The number is carefully got up, capitally printed, and well advertised, and must be a boon to those for whom it was designed. We wish our contemporary every success. A meeting of the Committee of the Thames Jockey Club was held last evening. The business was principally routine. An arrangement was made to have a totalisator on the ground, and it was decided to sell the Club's,privileges on. the 15th inst. Mb Gordon, the iaspecting officer of the goldfields department is—with Mr Aitken, the County Engineer, about to measure the water at'the various batteries, with a view to ascertaining the most efficient system of utilising the supply provided for their working. . A shoet sitting of the District Court, in bankruptcy, presided over by A. J. Atlom, Esq., Clerk of tbo Court, was held this morning, when an order was made for the discharge of Thomas Grundy, a debtor. Two inebriates appeared before Dr Kilgour and H. 0. lawibr, Esq., J.P., in the Police Court this morning, and were each fined 5s and cOßts, or 24 hour a ' imprisonment. One of them was found ljing below the embankment near the water line in a very holplese condition, and had he not been taken charge of by the police M-ould'undoubtedly have been drowned.

PBBSON3 on the Goods Wharf last night were somewhat; surprised to see tho lights of a good-sized steamer approaching Grahamstown from bejond Tararu point. Considerable speculation was indulged in as to who the stranger was, the majority thinking she would prove to bo tho Annio Milbank on a trial trip from Auckland. However, when she came wifcbin a few hundred yards of the wharf and 1 sent a boat ashore, it was found that shefJwas the Government steamer Stella, calling here to land Mr Seed, Commissioner Customs. She left again last night, Thb brigantine Prosperity arrived Irom Auckland in ballast last evening, and went up fh.e river as far as Kopu, the master steer* ing her himself. With this morning's tide Bhe proceeded to Bead's lower mill, where she will take in a cargo of timber, probably for an Australian port. .. In the Police Court this morning, a man named Robert Easter was complained of by his wife for threatening to kill her, and the latter asked that Easter be bound over to keep the peacsf. Mrs Easter stated that on Saturday night last the defendant went home, and, after being in bed for an hour, got up, accused her j of infidelity, and threatened to kill her if she did not leave the premises. She had to sleep at a neighbour's bouse that night. The [ defendant had announced his intention of not obeying the summons, and did not appear. A warrant wae ordered to be mued for hi»arrest.,

The Customs' revenue collected through* out the colony last month was £106,403 5s 6d 5 for the corresponding month of last year it was £127,618 183 Id. The total revenue for the eight months of the fiaancial year is £933,296 ].5s lOd, which is below the Treasurer's estimate for that period by £80,036 10s lOd. The beer duty Jast month was £4675 19s 4d, as against £5292 lla lid. For the eight monthslbhe total revenue from this source is £35,815 12s 4d, which is £5517 14a 4d, under the estimate. The New Zealand Shipping Co. have received a cable that their second steamer, the Aorangi, left London for Wellington via Plymouth and the Capo on Nov. 20, with a full cargo and a large number of passengers. The British King reached the Cape on Nov. 28, and sailed the same day for Wellington. i At the inquest on the body of Young, who shot himself at Dunedin on Saturday, a verdict of suicidfr while insane was returned. Tho deed was evidently premeditated. The jury added a rider that no blame attached to Me Cunningham. A riEB broke out on Sunday morning on | the premises of Mr John Torrance, grocer, j Wakefield Btreet, Auckland, but it was speedily | i suppressed by the Brigade. The house belongs to Mr Oulpan, of St. Mary's road. Mr Torrance had his stock insured in the | Colonial for £150, and bis fuifniture for £50 i in the same company. A meeting- of shareholders of the Seymour Groldminiug Company was held yesterday afternoon in the office of Mr D. Q-, MacDonnell Auckland, for the purpose of considering the position of the Company, On the motion of Mr Melville, seconded by Mr Morpeth, it was resolved to call an extraordinary general meeting for the purpose of winding up the Company, also, "That the last call be enforced." The Wakatipu Mail denies the truth of the report about diamonds being found at Gavinslow, Otago. The New Zealand Refrigerating Company have added a Haslam's machine to their works at Burnside, Dunedin, which will enabls them to freeze 375 sheep per day instead of 250. They will send 11,000 or 12,000 sheep by the Tongariro, and have arranged for the despatch of about 84,000 during 1884. This wholesale exportation will be a great factor in rising the price of meat. At Bakaia Gorge, Canterbury, a goldbearing reef has been traced cropping out along the west bank of North Creek, the stream flowing into the Moa Creek, a tributary of the Wilberforce, across a saddle 4190 feet up the range, and to what is called Unknown Creek, covering a distance of about 3 or 4 milrs. Samples of quartz showing gold, obtained from Hills near North Creek, are on view in Christfchurch. The GHazier Quaitz Mining Company, formed to work this reef, apply for a lease of 13£ acres near Browning's JPass.