THAMES NOTES.
(by telegraph—own cokrespondent. )
Thames, this clay. Feom a private letter received from Mr J. H. White, better known as " Hookey," well-known in Auckland, who left the Thames some nine years ago, and who is at present managing the Barrett G.M.Co.'s mine, situated about 14 miles from Barberton, South Africa, I learn that matters there are quietening, and the excitement is gradually subsiding. The Barrett Co.'s mine consists of 1,500 acres of land, and is owned by a London syndicate, whom Mr White is representing. There has been a great deal of sickness, especially from fever, on the goldfields, which are of considerable extent; but many of the mines in which shares have arisen to fictitious piices possess no crushing plant, while very little work has been done. Shares are now receding to what is considered their leal value.
Mr William Gribble, late organist of the Wesleyan' Church, was presented with a purse of ten sovereigns on the occasion of his leaving the district for Waikato OD. Saturday. - ■■
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 149, 27 June 1887, Page 5
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