LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST THAMES NEWS Thames, Friday.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 130, 28 November 1885, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST THAMES NEWS Thames, Friday.

Thames, The body of a elderly man was found in the Thames river at JDuok creek this morning, and is supposed to be that of James Cochrane, who disappeared from Waruhoe on Saturday last. A parcel of If ton§ of quartz, brought from the Alexandra claim, Waitekauri, by lialph and party, has yielded 6£ozs gold, worth £16 18s. Huntley aud party, tributers in the Waitekauri mine, have sold one ton of quartz to the Smelting Company y^or £33j 11s. Its contents being gold Boz 3dwte Bgrs, silver 4oz 18dwta. : Cambria.—Bolbs of specimens were obtained this morning xrom the hanging wall leader in 4he winze below No 3 level. New Alburaia. — Irwin, tributer, crushed 16 loads for a return of 970z 16dwts. '' ' '

LATEST ,K# OHINEMUip MJNES. } 1 Auckland/ last night' A much better feeling exists in the 1 Bhurcmorket. The binelting : Company have offered £33 11s per ton for ore from Huntley's claim, Waitekauri, is considered very satisfactory.

THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS. Latest returns respecting the English Elections £ive Conservative 94, Liberals 91. Gladstone has been returned for Midlothian. At Wangarei Messrs Downing and Gleeson's brewery has been totally des-, Iroyed by fire, loss £2,000.

ANNUAL MEETING SMELTING CJMPANY. The annual meeting of the Smelting Company was held to-day, and the]old directors were re-elected. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said: It would be observed from it t\m\ the smelting process wat» still on trial, ho' that no opinion could be expressed as to the probable result; however it had been successful at Sunny Corner and elsewhere and the directors were sanguine. A delay had arisen in starting work owing to La Monte's missapprenhenaious with regard to the treatment of Cambria and their" baser ores ; Mr LaMonte having informed the directors that such quartz could be treated by the smelting furnace, hut the manager found it would be necessary to erect a roasting furnace before it could be treated ; the roasting ,furnace was now bdng, constiucted as speedily as possible, and the directors hoped it would be in full- working order within a few weeks.; Me Me Cosh Clarke and othets coir plained-00 the assay te3tß, arid,thought ,the. directors should haVe takenldtlier steps to prove th& value of quartz as against assay. ; THE AUCKLAND CUP. Stoneyhurst and Foul Shot are the favourities for the Auckland Cup. At, the Wellington races to day the Hutt Park Handicap was won by Pasha, Clogs second, and Administrator third.