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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5155, 25 July 1885, Page 2

DvßiiTOjtbe pest few days, Ciptain L3W.'b, M J-0.E., F.G-.5., who evdved on the Thames a few weeks ago, be 3 bsaia on a tour of inspection in tbe Obsaemuvi d'st?"cfc, from whence he reU??ced last evening. He visited the Tara* rifei coe! mf'ne, befrg kindly shown through the workings by Mr Ho£g, and vsei much imprespfd wiih wbafc he saw. The foal is suitable for household purpos?3, throws out a good beat, and would make a good smeUing ocal. He wes also shown a Jerge seam of fire' clay, go me 30 feet 151 thickness, which he ate.Ua is rotce of the purest he has seen, and can&idera it useful for making ordinal/ building bricks, end thoe; required for furnace purposes—smelting fuini; 'os particularly— pkater cement for ceilings, ornices, and suoh work, end fn CDnnecHon wirh tbe casl i»i the, distrot, it is adaptable to* coke mp^ing. Captain L^wis has a Tery high opinion of the mines at Kirangahako, over which he was shown in company with Mr Humphries, of loMonts'e process, which he thinks will, with a judicious, outlay of capital, prove to be rich in ores, and expresses himself so pleased with the prospects of tbe district that ho is disposed !o recommend a number of Home friends to expend capital in derelopiug the resources of tbe district. Much value should be attached b* the opinion of auch an authority as Captain Lewis, who, in London, hei been a mining authority for a quarter of a century. A visit to the Otunui district is Kkely to be short!.? undertaken by ou? Tieitor, who etinces much interest in the oprations baing carried on in the district. It is to behoj^l that tte likelihood of Csptshi Lswis telWng down in the district, as there it a probibHity of, will be soon recorded. At the Pr.abytetian Church tomorrow oveaiDg, tha Ber. S. J. tfeill will lecture on th« Book of Paalms (Raised Version). Mr E. H. Taylor will also lecture at the Pollen ftroet Lectnre Hall, while the usual services will be eoaducted at the Wesleyan ohurdhes.^

Mi JOB Catttxey arrive i in Lyttelton from Fort Cfaalmeta yesterday, on a final tour of in? speotidn of the defence works. He gets oa io Wellington, and returns ia time catch.the R.M.S. Eimutski, in which he tsk«B paeisge to

(JOOD progress is being made wifch the transit of quartz, intended for treatment by by LaMonte in Sydney, from the Ivanhoe mine, Xaranghake, to the wharf at Paeroa. Tie road is now in a much better state, a»cl the contractor (Mr P. Quinlan) is able to mako three or four trips doily. A qu utity of coko arrived here by the ketches AslzeUe and Imoy James yesterday, intended i-ys fuel for the furnace to be erected at '£. rangahake.

■'.Pke manager of (he Bank of New Zealand shipped 4,4820zs 15dw»« gold t® AuoMand, by the *.s. Botomabana, yesterday afternoon.

On Thursday a child, eight years of age, named Samuol Ensor, living in the Karaka road, was with several otlisr children playing football when, he sustained a levere dislocation of big elbow and a comminuted fracture of its left arm. He was at once taken to the Ho pital, where Mr Challoner cet the broken arm arc! reduced the dislocation.

SEVtBAL influential Auckland capitalists lavo feken Scanltsn's claim at Waiomo in hand, and operations will be started when the lettee is granted, perhaps sooner.

Wk hive received an excellent plan of tbo mines in the Karangabake district, published at the Herald Office, Auckland, which should bfl very useful to speculators and others.

Wk would direct the attention of ouv readers to Mr B. Morgan's advertisement in epother column, calling attention to fc"-i stock of rovelties and fancy goods.

We are requested to state that the Silvers Crown claim, floated in Auckland lately, vf&n nob placed on the market by Mr T. A. Dunlop.

At the next banco Bitting of the Auck'e ;ss Supremo Court, Mr A. E.jWhitaker will app?;v for a new trial in the case Elliot t. Hancock, ■an action for Jibal beard at the resent civ). sittings, in -which a tpecrl jury awarded damage?, £200. The ground* of the application are that the verdicl: was rgainsfc ,the weight of evidence, and that the damages were txceesive.

Gbubbai/ly accepted observations in different parts of the world show that the temperature of mines increases about one degree every 64 feet. A number of reports hare been received by the Victorian Mining Department which sbow that this is not invariable. In Laneell's No. 180 Mine, Sandburst, at one experiment it was ascertained that at 1660 feet the temperature was 78deg., &nd aC 1760 fet t75 deg. The inspectors bate •been requested to furnish a report on this variation from general experience.

The half-yearly met ting of the Canterbury Tramway Company was held yesterday, when a dividend equal to 7 per cent, was declared.

A Dtthems telegram grates that at the result of the voting on ibe question of establishing a District Grand Lodge of Druids for the Middle Island, only one ledge in Ota go and Southland Toted against it. The Dune* din lodges had a torchlight, procession on the c casion, and ft concert in eid of the benet lent funds.

At a meeting of the City Council of Kelson last night, the following resolution was, carried unanimously.—"That this Council entirely agrees with the proposals o? the Government on the subject of the Nelson-and East and W. at Coast railway, and that the resolution bu telegraphed to the Government."

Nrws is to hand from Whangaroa of an p.clion for divorce which is likely f) afford ample material for gossip in eocif I circles for

i a?e time to coaoe, 2he petitioner is a bank oerk named Blunden, who was formerly a : dent of Auckland, but who is now in Sydney. He applies for dissolution of marriage on the ground of the alleged riu:teiy of his wife Kith a man named Hagger, who is engaged ia the gum trade at Whangaroa. The affair bas caused quite a sensation in the disUict.—Star.

The inquest on the late fire in Prince's street, Auckland, was concluded yesterday, when the jmy returned a verdict to the effect tbat the firs was accidental.

Mb J. H. Upton he? bsen elected Chahmttu of the Auckland Board of Education.

A PrilliOK to the Assembly is in course of r'^nature in 'Auckland, praying for relief works for tbe unemployed, as the City Conncil is unable to find employment for (hem, but very few e^oatures are yefc obtained.

A •woman named Parish, residing at Northcotr, Auckland, hai a narrow escapa from drownirg yesterJay, under somewhat singu ar ch'cum&iartces. It appears that some men who were engaged discharging timbar from avessel at (he Nort'icote'wbar/, observed a wonvm wa'kfng up and down the tse, as if awaiting t*e anivr I of a Bfrairer. Shortly afterwa-d'e ;hey were e'armed by hearing a splaib, end noticing Vbat she bad fallen 'uti the w; te •, they El oace put off in a dingy and rescue i her. Sbe remaned unconscious for about Ivfo bonrE, but e/enfually recovered. Mr Pariah says there were no family tronbles which woivd be likely to lead to the falling into the wafer having been pramediated, and thinks alio must have been suddenly seized with some derange ment of the mind Mrs Parish is » middlea^ed person, and has a family of fou? or five children.

A MBETISQ- of Hie citizens of Auckland wci hald kst night, the Mayor presiding, to inaugurate a moTencent for a memorial ia memory of the ]»te Mr Jobn Sheehan, M.H.R. A strong committee, representing all pa>ta at (.be ooloDy, and ont fining thenames of many of the inembpra of the Legislature) Was appointed to consider and report to h fu'.ure meeting as to the form the memorial should assume. Tho Mayor was appointed treasurer of tbo fund.