LATEST THAMES NEWS.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1164, 7 December 1904, Page 3

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

(Special to tho Daily Telegraph.) Thames, this day.

HOSPITAL ELECTRICAL PLANT Tub electric installation for medical purposoi at the Thames Hospital is completed, and is a groat succoss. At present it will bo usod for surgionl work, but it is hoped to enond it to the lighting of the whole building if the water is brought neiiror. Tho X-rays ore already a moans of locating the soat of injuries. MINING NOTES •The manager of the Waimangn mino' prior to flotation, proceeds to the property tomorrow to superintend the development of tho reef at tho low level. The work of treating the gold tailings in the Kuranui and other mines under tue road surfaoe is procooJiug, it is reported with satisfactory results. Tho ropaira to tho Kuranui battery aro Bteadily proceoding. Good progroßs is being made. It is reported that the prospect of the Tftirna Crook mino hss improved Mr Winstonr, one of the heads ot tho Drilling Company, states that the only contracts aro at Waitokanri and Waihi. lie and Mr Dalby will romuin well into tho next year. Mr Carpenter, tho foreman, proceeds 10 America shortly, and Mr Carlson returns from Australia in connection with the ciiso against the company for damages for wrongful dismissal. ACCIDENTS Mrj H. Polers has been receivod int i the hospital as tho result of a scvero cut between the thumb and first fingiT. S " had 11 narrow osoapoof sevonny il.f Million, which might have prodiicni lockjaw. James Hancock has aleo gone to the hospital with a puncuiod filler; Mr Patterson with a crushed finger; and an Austrian named Bcgttrd, with a broken arm,