THE Thames Advertiser SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 6050, 14 April 1888, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888.

' A new rush'is reported at Waitekauri, ■■- "Under False Pretences" will be found on the fourth page. |

Theonoe formidable successor of Pototau is a pensioner on the Government. This recalls Te Whiti's oraoular Potato is cooked," I

Mr Seaver has been all through the Paroquet mine, Waiomo, and has taken assays from the main reef and hangmgwall leader, andaUo from the tailingß now tin hand.

The following telegram was posted lwb night:-" Cambria: Broke down the main reef in the rise, and splendid looking mineral was seen through the quartz.' j

Mr James Rickit, the contractor for the Punri-Hikutaia road, will have it finished in about two .weeks,. The metalling will; be completed ia ; a] day or two, and there remains only a small number of culverts, to put in. ;'

Application for letters patent has been made by Mr Joshua Cuff, of Hastings, tor a water-power ship propeller. Mr A, Donkm of Thames also applies for letters patent for "an improved application of electricity to element of ores,"

' The Hauraki Tribune »ays:-" We understand there is considerable competition (for the mantle of Mr Lindsay Jackson. There are. it ii) currently reported, thirty-five candidates for the billet of Foreman of Works to the County, but the.nnmber may be; reduced to-'three4Mo3srs.'!Thomas Logan, William Tetley, and John Goonan. The. appointment is to be made to.morrow, JMr T. E. Shaw, we are assured, is not a candidate, f! 7. LIT '•;.,. ' -.-'-.'.J .-•) i s , , ~,; '•-' Governors, M.H.R's., judges, bishops bankers, clergymen, lawyers, doctors, andeditors. These are the people for whom John Earle and Co., of 207 Queen street, Auckland, are purveyors of Pure Blended teas, enabling all ranks and olasses of people to enjoy good health, and spirits, to save money, and to have a treat for their friends. Mr John'Earle oocupies a first place among the few practical tea experts of New Zealand j,and we believe the pure blended ; teas *bf thi3 now celebrated firm are all that, can be deßired. >

The Paroquet keeps getting a little gold in the winzs in No. 2 level to connect with No. 3. There are about 40 feet yet to drive on No, 3 level. Some doubt _ exists as' to whether the drive is on the right branch, but the winze : will prove it in about three or four weeks' time. The winza is going down on the main reef, but the drive may be taking .on another branch of the lode. Three drays are ,bu«y carting quartz, and a fourth dray is carting tailings to the Molloy reduction works in town. Sixty tons of quartz yielded without blanketting 2680zs amalgam, wbioh the manager estimates will go about a third,

The manager of the New Alburnwreports that the western drive on the hangingwall lode, battery level, has been extended a distance of Bft; the eastern drive has [ been driven Bst, and the leading stope carried along 10ft during the week. There is ! now a block 60ft in length opened up, and the stopea will be kept manned, There are about 8 loads of quartz in the paddock, and 371bs of picked stone on hand. The quartz : n the eastern drive has been broken down: the reb f lookeii Ter y P romisin S« although no goldwasseen. This drive should penetrate to a branch of the SSOMW. ree{ »' . a ' : P omt 16ft further ahead. This will improve the ventilation, and enable a start to be made in rising on the lode, which has not been worked at this point, The following tributers cleaned up last week ;-Jobe and party, 18 loads, 9iozs; Chrißtie and party, 12 loads, Bozs 6dwt{ Jamieson and patty, 1 load, lSdwfc, ;

A number of civil cases ,were adjudicated upon at the R.M. Court yesterday before Dr Kilgour and H...C • Lawlor Esquires J'B,P,, judgment was given for the plaintiff in eaoh of the following cases:—D, Lindsay v. J. Cash, claim £7 15s lid, with costs 17s; Wright v. Smith, claim £5 6s, with costs £1; J. E. Hansen v. W. A. Hunt, claim £7 lis 2d, with costs 10; I Teddy v. Rauiri, olaim £3 14a. with costs 6d. The > same v. W.Reid and Baker, claim £8 13s 9d for Eoods supplied. Judgment for amount with oosts lis. Houghton v. Sainsbury, olaim £7 for wages. Judgment for amount with costs £5 10s, William Barret sued Richard Mcßrinn for £10 10s, for work done on a track to the Marototo mine. Plaintiff contended 'that the defendant had promised to Bee him paid in any case. . Defendant denied having employed Barrett for the five weeks claimed. Mr Miller on behalf of Mcßrinn submitted that the plaintiff should have sued;the County Council, Plaintiff was nonsuited, each party to pay own costs.

One of Lord Charles Beresford's pet aversions (says a London writer) is the old fogey The noble.lord is a great respecter lof old age, but regards it, when afflicted with gout or muffled in. rheumatio cloths, and yet professing to perform publio duties in the Admiralty or War Office, as something in the wrong place, There is a story that Lord Randolph Churchill, when Chancellor of the one day went to Somerset House and interviewed the staff. Amongst the sinecuristsjm virtue of physical'' in capacity to earn "their salaries were many septuagenarians, who ; walked with difficulty and had to be helped to and from their broughams. These worthy pillars of great department were promptly retired and replaced by younger men, Lord Charles Bereßford, It js Baid, went all over the Admiralty, not alone the office in Whitehall, but through all its pendant rookeries, and had drawn out a formidable schedule for a superanuation process,

Immense excitement was created at Sanger's Amphitheatre, London, reoently by the escape of eight wild wolves. They were brought from Siberia, arrived on a Saturday morning, and .were placed in a cage in one of the stables at the rear of the building, in whioh were 17 valuable pepforming horses, A few minutes after midnight the keepers heard an unusual commotion in the stable, and on going to see what was the matter found that the wolves had escaped from their cage and had attacked one of the horses and were tearing the flesh from the neck and other parts of the body in a terrible fashion. One of the keepers named Frank Taylor, seeing the dangor of tho remaining 16 horses, with great bravery entered the stable, and notwithstanding that several of the wolves attacked him, he succeeded in getting tho 16 hornes out of the stable while the wolves were engaged devouring the caroasß of the horse which they had killed. An iron gate was plaoed at tho doorway of tho stable, and the wolves were left with the remainder ot the horse's carcass. A police inspector next day visited the stable and found that there was no probability of the wolves making their escape into the street. After 10 o'clock the same night three of the wolves were asleep in the oorner of the stable, while the others were still feasting on the dead carcass, They are being closely watohed.