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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5176, 19 August 1885, Page 2

The manager of the Cambria G.M. Co. telegraphed this morning as follows :—" 90lbs specimens from winze, No. 3 level} gold showing.—H. W. Moobb."

Me J. MoGowan, Chairman of the meeting held in the Academy on Monday night last, in accordance with the instruction of the meeting, forwarded copies of the resolutions passed to the Government, and to-day received the following reply:—" Your telegram re Bailway will be considered.—Bobbbt Stout."'

Mb Johnsoh, late of Onehunga, an assayer under engagement to Mr LaMonte, of furnace fame, arrived at the Thames yesterday, aad has informed us that he will in a few days be in a position to undertake assays for the public—in fact.aa soon as he can complete bit laboratory. Several expressions of a desire on the part of the public that such an oppor. tunity should be fcfforded them have reached us for some time past.

Ix has been decided to call the extensive claimt pegged out by Messrs H. Tapp, D. H, and T. C. Bajldon, and P. Hore, the Cornhill Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively, and there is every probability that the Home capital to be ÜBed in working the ground will come from that portion of London. Nearly all the arrangements on this side are complete, and it is likely that Mr Tapp will proceed to England by the, direct steamer Buapehu about the cud of the month on hia mission to place the companies. Thebe was quite an exodus of passengers to Auckland from the Thames by the Roto. mahana this morniDg, and many of them were possessed of specimens from various parts of the district; several mine managers went up, and Mr Edwards, who goes to the Wellington Exhibition in the interests of the Faint Company, was also a passenger.

A MBEHNG of the residents of Hikutaia will be held in the Schoolroom at 7.30 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of urging upon Government the necessity of completing and opening the Thamea Valley line for traffic.

The following specimens have been gathered to be [forwarded to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. From the Tararu district—Felspar, jasper, alum shale, clay ; arsenic and silicate of elumina from Carron's farm j from Kauaeranga : Clfty, red ochre, and a sample of rock with various minerals in it. a specimen of unknown mineral from Tapu . aluminous clay from Murphy's Hill, and a sample from a olay slide on the Collarbone in the Karaka district.

The old West Coast clhim, situated in the Waiotahi Creek, and adjoining the Cambria and Moanatairi Extended companies, is being formed into a company of 60 shares of £20 each, 10 of which are reserved by the promoters, while the remaining 50 are offered to the public at £20 each. One-half the proceeds aeoruiog from the sale of the shares will be retained by the promoters, and the other half expended in developing the mine. The shares have been placed on tha Auckland and Thames markets, and a number have already been disposed of.

" Oxbnham'S Monthly Turf Register" has reached us, and' we recommend every racing man to ' become a subscriber to this useful little work.

The Molboumians will no doubt; feel an interrst in the following picture of themselves aa they appear to a wrirerin London Sooiety j —" Everyone who knows anything of the colonies and colonists is well aware that Melbournians are notoriously ' uppish.' Their great characteristic is an intense patriotism of the most egotistical description, which, as it generally takes the form of vast 'blowing' about their great city and great country, and the despisal of any other great city or country, renders the Melboumiun oftentimes a most objectionable companion. His conviction is that there is no city in the world to .compare with Melbourne, no street like Collins-street, no public buildings like the Melbourne Post Offioe,Houses of Parliament, and Government House (the most unsightly building in Australia!;, and no people like the Victorians."

A TfiHT peculiar case under bankruptcy proceedings will come on for hearing before His Honor Mr Justice Gillies in the Auckland Supreme Court. The grounds of the action are connected with the bankruptcy of Mr Ponsonby Peacock, lately Inspector under the Board of Education, a-d the payment to the bankrupt by the Bard of £200 after a claim had been made on them by the OiSoial AsßTgnre for this money on behalf of t!>e the creditors in the estate, This claim the Official Assignee still persists in, and the Board of Education has decided to resist it. Mr Cave will appear in eupport of the Offioial Assignee's claim for the money, and Mr B. Hesketh ia to appear on behalf of the Board of Education.

Mb Sa£A writes to the Daiiy Telegraph, Melbourne, aa follows :—" With reference to a paragraph headed' G. A. Sala and Melbourne,' quoted in your issue of this day from a London paper called Society, I should be obliged if you would allow toe to say a few words. Alluding to the alleged ' failure' of my lectures in this city, the writer of the paragraph in question obaorves :—' Putting the pocket oat of the question, Mr Sala oan, under the circumstances, well afford to dispense with the appreciation of an Antipodean mob.' I have much pleasure iv stating that my pocket generally, and in particular as regards my Melbourne lectures, is in a perfectly healthy condition. I delivered, between 23rd March a.< d 6th April inclusive, a coureeof five lectures in Melbourne, the gross receipts of which amounted to £605 6s 63, an average of more than £120 per lecture. And this I did without; blacking ruy face, without dancing a 1 break-down,' and without the adventitious assistance of a panorama, a magic lantern, carloon portraits, or a piano."

In consequence of tha resignation, owing to defeat on the Secondary Education Bill, of the Stewart administration, and the fact that it bad been accepted,, but no successor? were appointed, things nearly reached a climax at the Parliamentary Union last evening. The difficulty was, however, got over by Mr Bruce (Bast Coast) interviewing the Governor (Dr. Kilgour), and undertaking to form a Ministry which was done as follows:—Premier and Colonial Treasurer, Mr McGowan (Pictori) ; Minister of Juetice and Commissioner of Telegraphs, Mr Heriot (Eden) } Minister of Lands and Mines, Mr Btuce (East Coast). The portfolios Public Works, Attorney General, Education and Native and Defence are left open for the present. The Gaming and Lotteries Bill was considered in committee, progress on it reported, and the Premier gave notice of his intention to introduce a Fisheries Bill next sitting. The House then adjourned!

Übb American Co.'s Hop Bitters once and you will use no other medicine. Test it. Take no other, Be BUre and retd.

RIOPEHBING to the operations of the meu employed by the Wanganui Gold Prospecting Association, the Chronicle says :—" Wahanui promised, when the time was ripe, to giro the representatives of the Wanganui company the first permission to prospect on land over which he has no con'rol. The time of which Wahanui spoke has come round, and all that Mr BaUunce has done ha* been to authorise prospecting on Wahanui's land by persons who have that chief's permiesion to do ao Auckland should certainly bo the last place to grumble, aa it muafc undoubtedly get a very large share of any advantag s that may aooruo from the enter pi ise of the Wanganai Association. A good deal of speculation is rife just now with regard to fche prospects of the Co. and the alleged finds of its prospectors, but the directors are wise enough under the circumstances to keep their own counsel, except as to generalities. This much, however, we have learned of the business transacted at a specially summoned meeting on Saturday afternoon. The directors had before them a communication from the prospectors in tbeir employ, speaking of good prospeots, but following up the statement by an excessive demand for remuneration, in violation of their agreement with the company. The men appear to think that they can impose what terms they liko on the company, on the strength of their alleged find, but they have mistaken their men. The company, we loam, determined to resist the demand, and accept their notice of cancellation of agreement."