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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5120, 15 June 1885, Page 2

The manager of the Cambria G.M. Co. telegraphed late .this - afternoon :—" 30lbs. specimens from No. 3 level.—H. W. Mooee.*

All tbe column?, &0., have been recovered from the Queen of Beauty shaft and the whole plant sorted and ticketed, and it ia not improbable that an auction sale will be held shortly.

DtrßiNQ- the past month or two, considerable improvements hare been made to the machinery of Bagnall's sawmill, which, it frill be remervbered, was burned down some time ago, and a preliminary trial has been made, when everything worked very smoothly. It is expected that everything will be in full swing on Monday next.

A sample of stone tested by La Monte from the Woodstock mine, Karangahake, contained £30 worth of bullion per ton, as against fifty shillings' worth usually obtained by the battery process.

The usual competition for the Manning Belt took place at the Collarbone Range on Saturday afternoon, the ranges being 200 and 500 yards, ton shots at each. The following are the scores :—Yol. Hawk, 81 j Vol. Climo* 73 ; Capt. Lucas, 73; Vol. Downie, 65 ; Vol. Newdick, 65 ; Vol. Clark, 64 j Vol. Beardon, 63; Corp. Inglis, 62; Sergt. Gentry, 61; Vol. Vine, 61 ; Vol. Paterson, 59 ; Sergt* Gibbs, 51. Vol. Hawk is now entitled to have hia name inscribed oa one of tbe plates of the belt, this being the third time he has been the highest scorer. The following are the scores of tbe first match for tbe belt presented by ex-Captain Hoani Nahe, the competition for which is limited to seeond-olass shots :—Color-Sergt. McCormick, 47;® Vol. Culpitt, 43$ Vol. E. Plummer, 42; VolGribble, 37; Vol. Scott, 28 ; Vol. Jennings' 27; Vol. Driver, 25 ; Vol. R. Pummer, 21; Vol. J. McGregor, 14.

The football match played on the Waio* Karaka Flat on Saturday afternoon between the Miners' and Hauraki Clubs, resulted in a victory for the former club by ten points—a goal and three tries to nil.

It will bo remembered that during H Larnach'e recent visit to Tapu he promised a subsidy of £500 towards works in that district, leaving it optional as to what works it should be expended upon. During the past few days considerable discussion has taken place on the Bubject, the residents not being able to agree in the matter, and it is not unlikely that the Warden will be aeked to arbitrate and settle the differences.

There was a fair attendance ab the Presbyterian Church last evening, when the Her. S. J. Neill delivered the firat of a aeries of three lectures on the revised edition of the Old Testament. The rev. gentleman went very deeply into the subject and characterised the revision of the Script ures as the greatest event of the present century.

Wj? learn on good authority, that a i-share (1-52) in the North Star claim, Te Papa Gully, has changed bands at £50. This is certainly a good price and speaks well for the confidence of speculators regarding the future prospects of the claim. ■

An exchange says:—This is how the Wellington City Council amuse themselves. At the last meeting one of the councillors gave the He direct to the Mayor, and another said : "There is not a 6ingle effort that has been mode to settle with the Harbor Board, but your Worship has always tried to upset it. You talked of your loyalty at the meeting, but you would act more in jour own interests if you refrained from making mischief. You have made more mischief in this Council than any other man who ever sat in it. I say that to your face, and I do not shirk it. Ido not know what is to be done now : everything that has been done in the interests of the city* has now gone to tbo winds, and we can thank your Worship for it." When the Mayor's ruling was asked, he refused tojnterfere, on the ground that councillors had insinuated by their charges that he was unfit to occupy ths chair. Mb McQbegob announces a sale of table and seed potatoes at big auction mart tomorrow. Thb Binemoa left Wellington on Saturday night, for Napier, for the purpose of conveying the remains of the late Mr John Sheehaa to Auckland, where they will be interred. The charge against Ernest Brabazon, of Auckland, of carrying loaded firearms in a railroad carriage, was dismissed on the technical objection that he carried them on the platform. Mb Booth's temperance mission appeers to be very sucaassful in Wellington ; at the close of the seventh evening 1524 persons had taken tho blue ribbon, and 801 the pled 6 e

A hath be comical case of smartness on the part of a police constable occurred in the ITow Plymouth Police Court recently. One of the townspeople having had his windows broken by larrikins, asked the po'ice to keep a look-out. The other day a crash was heard, and the policeman was on the spot in a few seconds. He did not, however, catch a. larrikin, but heard the householder inside swearing at bis own clumsiness at hating knocked a clothes-horse through the pane. This was an opportunity not to be missed, and the obscenity clauses of the Polica Act were put into force. A summons was tak n on 1", but. the case was dismissed with a caution by the Bunch.

Thbbr was a la-ge attendance at the football match in Anr?lf land on Saturday afliornoon between (he Pnnsonby and Graf top. fiinbs, 3000 persons being preeenfc, ' The-gain© was moat spiritedly contest cd, and resulted in a victory for Ponsonby by one point oaly, the score being—Ponsonby a goal and a try (six points) to Qrafcon's goal (fire points). K. Whiteside scored both the goal and try for Ponsonby, and Mountfort secured the try for Grafton, which Byan kicked a goal from. The betting was in favor of Ponsonby. Grafton played a grand forward game for the last 10 minutes.

The Wellington Post underatauds that a fresh order prohibiting Mr W. J. Hunt from residence in any of the islands of the Western Pacific was receutly signed by Governor Dcs Ycsux, and was enforced against Mr Hunt ou his recent visit to Samoa, He was ordered to leave within a certain number of days, on pain of arrest.

A VIOTOBIAM colonial, well known in Ballarab, has written the following intereotlng letter to the Times in vindication of the claim of Victoria to have been the first Australian colony to render voluntary assistance to the mother country in an Imperial war:— "Sir, — The selection of the Now South Wales force for active service has made the other colonies almost jealous of her good fo tuno. It must, however, be bore in mind that to the colony of Victoria belongs the honor of first taking part in*an Imperial war on an equal footing, eince she fifed out and maintained exclusively at her own expense a sloop of war, the Victoria, during the whole period of the late military operations in New Zealand, extending over two years. The military and naval reports boar full testimony to the services roi'dered by tho vessel itself under the late good and gallant Commander Norman, and by the detachment furnished out of her officerß and crew to the Naval Brigade on shore ; and the eveut itself is worthy of record as probably the first instance of a colony sending a force, far from its own shores and equipped at its own charge, to share tho dangers of an Imperial war in which its own safety and interests were io no degree concerned."

According to an Ashburton paper Mr O. Digby, of Wincbmore road, is th« owner of a pony that has shown itself to be an adept ratter. The animal kills with its teeth any rat thst ventures within its reaoh.

The Q-overnor and a number of members of Parliament visited the defence works at Wellington in the Hinemoa on Saturday afternoon.

The Licensing B?nch have granted Michael Corcoran a license for the Notth Shore Flagsteff Hotel.

A pebson called at the Auckland Police Station, and stated that he waa the oecupierof a faouße previously tenanted by Constable Mitchell, in Prospect-atreet, Pousonby, He said he had opened a trap door in the Hoot', and discovered an old well, in which, were a haman skull and some bones. The police have taken no action in the matter.