THE MINING STOPPAGE AT THE THAMES. RESUMPTION OF PUMPING.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 23 March 1899, Page 6

THE MINING STOPPAGE AT THE THAMES. RESUMPTION OF PUMPING.

[by telegraph— pbess association.] Thames, This Day. Mr. T. A. Dunlop, manager of the ThamesHauraki Gold Mining Comp^iny, who a few clays ago was instructed to cease pumping, received a telegram at 1.20 to-day directing him to start pumping operations immediately on the company's behalf. The news has been received with universal satisfaction. The cable service is intereupted to-day by an earth-fault on the overland line between Adelaide and Port Darwin, about fifty miles north of Powell's Creek. Only a this European messages were got through few morning. Unfortunately it happens that the alternative overland line via Western Australia is Also blocked. The Rangitikei Advocate wasi yesterday published under the proprietorship of Mr. W. H. Smith, of Palmereton North, who has just bought it from Mr. Andrew. The case Waitara v. M'Govern, a question of the terms of a native land lease, was concluded in the Supreme Court this afternoon, when Mr. Justice Denniston decided on the facts in favour of defendant. «He refused to credit the evidence of the native agent Richards. The question of the validity of the lease will be argued later. The valuation of tho Borough of Petone Hinco last year* returns shows an increase of £2227 16it, the figures for 1898 being £18,543, and for 1899, £20,825. Thin will inurew Dm ordinary revenue by £111 7h 9d, and tho revenue from the S£)ecial rate by tittd, A littlo boy uumtul ('niton, seven years of agu, won nwintfiri# on one of tho trees in Dm Ncwtown hkhool ('tidoKuru a day or Lv/o ago wb''n \)n wan punned off by urioLhw boy who wim jtiwlun along tho other r'uiun at thu Uuum. In f;i!liiig he fractured l/i« M'u unit \n two jdacwi. Gomitiriuuu w iW'Hty'*p)l which appeared in yanUirilny a ift«u« mUm\uu to tho du'ath of Hurtfttnit iU'ttnin\ Hi>' Jinnm Mouat, Mr. It. T. (Jurt>« wr)i-«H, with iho object of tntMtiti 'k f'b'iir \.\\n\, U< wuh not the jmw.nl (lovt'ititnt'iili ittnl f<til<:<! to do juHtico (o He t'luUna til Dm deceused gbriMcrrturi. "A« v itaiHiw of fact," he wriUjx, "if- v/nu »i<*(. niilii (lie present (Jov(M'iitri<tn(' in*! iiuiciJ it. (Jommißsion to (!nqiiil'(! ifi'o old Kiililuiy <:lniriiN that an approach w»« uwU> to do justice to tlio clairriH of Hir .liunurt Mouat." Mr (JurliM pohilH oiH nliir* thai Kir James MouaL icavoK i<> widow, who in all good faith and juxLici* nhould receive the conMidoration duo for h«r husband's servic- s