Gold Returns.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 643, 28 October 1899, Page 2

Gold Returns.

A EECOED MONTH

The output of bullion from the Hauraki goldfields for the past month's operations is a record one, totalling £59,761 15s 7d. This'gives an increase of £5060 3s upon the previous month's output, which in its turn was £5315 13s 8d ahead of the former month's yield. This gives an increase of £10,376 16s 8d upon the output two months ago. Taking the counties separately, Thames shows an increase this month of £1573 12s Id, and Ohinemuri of £4150 11s Bd. Coromandel, on, the other hand, shows a decrease of £674 7 s 3d, which is not to be wondered at, as this district the previous month showed an increase upon the former output" of £3124 7s 7d, and to nearly maintain that advanced yield is in itself very satisfactory. The returns are as follows :— OHINEMURI. Company. . £ s.. d. AVaihi 24,308 0 0 N.Z. Crown 8,340 0 0 Waitekauri 6,610 0 0 Woodstock 1,943 0 0 Waihi-Silverton 1,517 0 0 N.Z. Talisman 2,150 4 6 Waitekauri' Extended...'. ' 1,011. 0 0 Komata Reef 1.. ........ ; 277 0. 0 Komata Reef 2 ■ 625s 0 0 W. Jubilee trib 31,6 8 0 £47,097 12 6 Coromandel 6,094 6 6 Thames .6,569 16 7 Total „..,. £59,761 15 7

'The anthem '' Toach. me, the Lord the way of Thy statutes " will bo sung at St. Paul's Church on Sunday (to morrow) evening. A rreeting of the committee o". the Ohinemuvi Agricultural and Horticultural Society will be held in the Gazette office on Wednesday afternoon next at 'V o'clock. Au extensive properly sale will i take place at Paeroa. on Thursday next, when Mcs'sis.Mackay and Pratt are instructed to soil central sections, together with six well builr, houses splendidly .situated in Corbett street," between the Presbyterian Church and Delany's corner. This sale should afford a splendid speculation for residents and others. Writing to a .Southern paper on the sighting of the Martini-Henry 303 rifle, an expert rifle shot states that he finds the new rifle has to be sighted at between 600 yds and 650 yds for 500 yds, with a bar sight, while witli the ordinary V about 100 yds has to be added. Madame Heller, the well-known physiognomist and clairvoyante, who is well spoken of by the Press of all the principal centres of the colony, is making a stay of a few days only in Paeroa. Madame lias just closed successful seasons at Auckland an! Thames. As other dates are fixed in - tending visitors should not delay their calls. The address is given in another column. This lady has no connection with public performers of the same name. ' The 'Prisco mail leaves Auckland on Monday, and those wl;o are desirous of sending abroad the Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly News should procure copies at one:. The next social in connection with St. Paul's Church will be held in the Criterion Theatre on Thursday ovening next. A strong committee of young men has been formed to carry out all details, and it is their intention to make this social more successful, if possible, than the previous ones, which have all been got up by the ladies. This being the last social of the series there will no doubt'be a large attendance. Mr Hamilton lias just completed tho installation of gas at the railway station. The public office and waitingroom's have been fitted throughout with the new incandescent light. Three large lamps have been fixed fon the platform, and this addition should prove a great convenience to the travelling public, aud make our station an up to date one. The work lias been carried out by the Gas Companj-, and it is. quite evident that with plenty of push and muscle the new gas manager intends to give the people of Paeroa more light. "Shure," said Michael at the Paeroa railway station as our boys were getting ready for the Transvaal; " Shuvo, they're getting a foine reception goin' away, so they ar-re." • Description of a woman votei- on. an Auckland electoral roll: "Jane Smith, domestic serpent." The compositor sets up many a true word by accident. Mr rJ. J. Peltus happened to be on the Queen street wharf, Auckland, at an early liouv ou Sunday morning, when he met an old friend, Mr C. D. Berry, late of Gisborno, in a state almost of nudity; seeming in a dying state. He at once comaiunicated with the constable on wliar'c duty, who promptly took Mr Berry in his care, and with the assistance of the relieving officer, Mr Stvatliern, Mr Berry was placed in a carriage and taken to the' district hospital, where he now lies in a precarious state. On Wednesda3 r evening Mr Peltus wrote as follows : —"I have made inquiries regarding Mr C. D. Berry, in the hospital. He is in a dying state, little hope of recovery. I have just telegraphed to his brother, Mr J. G. Berry, a well-to-do farmer in the Waikato, at Alexandra. He was born in Auckland 60 years ago." i.'oor Berry was in Paeroa during the boom, and did well. He was once Mayor of Gisborne. Tom Mandeno Jackson, the Maori- . land tenor now in the front rank"of English vocalists, is the son of "Sam" Jackson, head of one of the oldest firms of Auckland solicitors. " Sam ". was.sent for in a .hurry one morning by a ragged old person^named Costley ■ who was at the point of death. "What have you to leave?" asked "Sam perfunctorily.. "More thai, a hundred thousand," gasped Costley, and the astonished lawyer there and then drew the will which gave over £130,000 to various Auckland charities. Bam Jackson's brother, Major Jackson, was, after Yon Tempsky, the most noted of the plucky "colonials" who officered the Forest Rangers, a corps which covered itself with gore and glory in the Maori war of the early sixties.—Bulletin. To the Deaf.—A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, has sent £1,000 to his Institute, so that deaf people mmble to procure the Ear . Drums may have them free. Apply to Department A.0.Z., The Institute," "Longcott," Gunnorsbury, London, W. England. The prevalent use of slang by all classes of the community is as astonishing as it is lamentable. Primarily it implies on the part.of the speaker a poverty of English proper; secondly, a wanton preference for the vulgar and inornate; lastly, culpable indolence and want of care. You may do this with, more or loss impunity with lan-1 guage, but you cannot thus trifle with a cold, or cough; for these Woods' Great Peppermint, Cure is a tried and sure remedy. Every household should possess it. Sold everywhere at 1 s 6d to 2s 6d. ■' ' •;■■■ . j