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Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2038, 7 May 1875, Page 2

; There was a clean, sheet again at the Police Court yesterday, . .

When his Honor the Superintendent was here he was anxious to see a piece of Btone from Tairua, and a pirce of quartz which had been obtained from the Prospectors' claim was given him by one of our staff. Since returning to Auckland, Sir George has bad the stone crushed and tested, and we are now. informed that it contained gold at tbe rate of 54| ounces to' the ton. Sir George having : done this for himse'f, he will possibly be more powerfully impressed than by statements of what has been done by others, and will be the more anxiow to provide roads to open up a country which promises to add sogreatly to the wealth of the province.

A good deal of space might be occupied: in our columns by anecdotes of the measles epidemic which is now prevailing, and which has given a name to what may yet become a famous locality, vi7.,-Meaßlestown, on the Tairua goldfieldi Who was the godfather in this instance we have been unable to discover, although we - have made extensive inquiries, but although as a general rule we are in favour of calling towns by names which may have events associated with them, rather than in repeating the name of a place elsewhere, ■we do think'., that it would- be a public service if the enlightened inhabitants of Measlestown would assemble and re-christen the place.before it is too late. But'. to return to the epidemic here.It seems as if the whole of the juvenile population were doomed-to have it, and as it induces considerable derangement of the system, the , sufferer is for some time after exceedingly liable ' to the attack's of other diseases. 1 For mahy ; weeks past the attendince at the schools has been most materially reduced. It seemed fc& long time as if the Punga Plat Fchool escape, but at last one pupil caught it, ancr» then the others followed, till only two children were present to be taught. The teacher . thought it was time to shut up school for a few days.. ' ... ' A small, trial parcel of 61bs of stone was..,, crushed in the mortar, and panned off, at the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, for Messrs Trewheela and Bonfield.. This stuff was taken out of the same claim in Tairua, but from a different reef to that from which the previous . test was obtained, lhe result of the test yesterday was l7i grains melted gold, or at - the rate of 13ozs 12dwis sgrs to the ton. This claim lies south of the prospectors'. A correspondent writes:—" Your contemporary the Enning Star, of May 3,has evidently discovered a mare's nest. 'The'simple '[ expedient of putting in a drive to ; drain a reef''. has only dawned on the management of the ' Caledonian, and this 'cunningly-devised fable' is to be submitted to the directors for their i - approval; then a complete system'of.ventiv,,.. lation is to be established. We may expect Jo see the captain becoming corpulent after thisr. I thought there was plenty of wind,m, ; that" quarter already. v Credit is also giveri.ior working the mine cheaply, on the fact that the fortnight's expenses are only £89. Now. when bracemen, engine-drivers, bosses, to,, have to be kept and paid, it seems to me that a larger' ■: percentage of workmen- below for the: officers ,' on top would realise far better results in- : - economy than can possibly be attained in an ' engine-claim only paying £89 for. expenses, per fortnight. To put more men below, and be •*. done with it, would not have sneh. a ring of. : . wire-drawing." ; : '/.:• • .

We notice that the-'Pearl' leaves for Puim on Saturday morning, day,, returning to Shortland again in the evening. No doubt many of our .local sportsmen will avail themselves of the trip to havaa shot at the pheasants in that duta^wh«e;tlwy.«% s«dVb9Y«ry plentiful,