THAMES NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 217, 14 September 1888, Page 4

THAMES NOTES.

(BY TELEGRAPH—OWN CORBESPONDENT ) ,-: .'■'■ Thames, this day. '' PORT OF THAMES.

The Secretary of the Harbour Board re. ceivecl the following telegram yesterday afternoon from the .Marine Department:— " Sir,—l am directed to inform you that the Government have again considered the Question of the limits of the port of 'harness, and have decided to revert to the limits fixed in 1874." The Government has therefore revoked the existing limits and defined this limits to.be those described in the warrant of the 7th September 0874, which was published in the " Gazette" If 10th September in the aamo year. : > FORESHORE MINING. A local shareholder in the Thames- Foreshore Gold Recovery Company has received a letter from London slating that it is proposed to amalgamate that company with the New Zealand branch of the NevvberryVautiu Company^ and that, in the event ot such being carried out, all arrears had been paid up to the end of • last year, and the interest of the former company will be handed over to the Newberry Company at the Thames. * '.".',. BOROUGH ELECTION. , The borough elections took place yesterday and resulted as follows :—North *Yard: Robert Comer, 70; Thos. Brown, 53 ; Bernnard Wolff, 9. South Ward j H. L. Koefoed, 104; John Dauby, 41.