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Thames Advertiser, Volume XX, Issue 6160, 31 July 1888, Page 2

The manager of the Saxon posted the following telegram at tho " Comer" yesterday 30 pounds of picked stone from o slope footwall portion of reef No 3 level.—F. •Tajiks,

Mr Alexander Aitkon, County Engineer, was engaued yesterday iu pointing out the work to lie done on the road between the mines aud battery at tho Mata.

Tenders for driviug 300 feet in Little NpII licensed holding, Collarbone spur, closc at 4 p,m, to-day, and must be left at Messrs Frater Bros, office,

Mr Theo. Wood, the well known tobacconist aud clothier, intimates a preliminary announcement that he is about to remove into his new shop, three doors from Mary street, lately in the occupation ot M. Whitehead, and will be ready for business in a day or two.

Wo are pleased to hear so many remarks about the letter we published on the 27th inst. from an old Thamesits in Broken Hill, and can inform our readers that arrangements have been made to continue the correspondence, so we are in a position to supply them with Broken Hill news regularity m future.

In our advertising columns this morning Mr Theodore Wood announces that he will open his new shop in Pollen Street in the course of a day or two.

A meeting of the shareholders ol the "Shamrock" Liccuscd Holding Marototo was held on Saturday evening at the Royal Hotel, when it was resolved to make a call of £5 per share payable on the 14th August to carry on operations in the mine. The manage l ' reported that .150 feet had bsen driven, and a further 20 feet would brin? them under the outcrop of the Prospector's reef from where very fair prospects had been obtained. He had also driven a distance of some 30 feet in another part of the mine, a:,d two other good looking parallel lodes were intersected.

The illuminated address to the Hon. W. J, •M. Larnach, which has been most artistically drawn up by Mr J. Patterson, is now on exhibition in' Mr Smith's (cabinet maker's) window, Pollen street, The colouring is most tasteful, and Mi Patteison is be highly complimented for his beautiful aud successful execution of the task entrusted him, The address is signed by the Mayor and Borough and County Councillors, and is beautifully framed in black and gold, We have seen many of Mr Patterson s productions, but his present effort tar succeeds in point of merit any of his former works. Wo understand that the address will be forwarded to Melbourne, and the intention is to 'have it presented to Mr Larnaoh by one of the jnemfera of the Victorian Legislature, .

Mr Myers, of Sydney, is expected to arrive at the Thames at an early date, _ We understand that the object of his visit is in connection with the purchase of the Silver Crown claim, Marototo.

Application has been made to the Governmcnt'to lease tjie railway. The applicants are prepared to put on a sufficient plant in order that the owners of mines in the Marototo and l'uriri districts may be able to cpur vey quartz and passengers to the Thame?,

We understand that the price paid for Vireard's claim at Coromandel by the Melbourne syndicate was £4,000 and for the (YfWghan's) £1000,

We bear tjiat the Barrier Copper mine lias been sold to >i M'clboniuo^Qinpiinvi Tiie price is stated to be £10,000.

The ketch Kate with a cargo of slabs arrived at the Thames from Tapu yesterday worn/ng.

The chairman of fee Thames County Council has received aij intimation from Mr A, O. Gavin, secretary to the treasury, to thy ejlccfc that the half year's interest on th/j debt due by the County Council to the treasury must be ptid by the Ist August.

Ac the police court yesterday boforo 11. \V Noiiburoff; S( l K-M., an application was made by tliy Vita of a Thames resident for the issue of a prohibition against him She nofc howevGr and agreed to give her erring liusbtiml a month's trial before Jiavmg Iho Met .enforced. On hte promjsnjg t fcojitt : jo would abandon his degrading )>iH |« « was adjourned for one month, during which time the pclicc would keep an eye ou him. His worship impressed on lum the f.u yot his conduct, pointing out that he could derive no beni# fi;</ni tj!|: over indulgence in alcoholic liqiors. This ftp C 4] the business, and the Court lihen iidjoui'iied.

We ate pleased fcc Icayn that owing to blip' strenuous efforts of Mr A. J. Oilman Jl.lt. for Coromundel, a {.'rant ol money Jjaw been obtained by the t.'oromandel County Council Jt om the Government for the formation and completion ol the Thanins-Ooromandel road, ;i,ikl it js to be able to hopefully look forward to t)i,« o[)euing* of tlio roiul for wheeled traffic. At thu p.r,o,so.nt tiiijo 11 .small track-is the only means .of reaflhiu r Coramandel by hind, and tho (/rant jijst obtained will enable the (Joromaiuiol Cowtv O'ouucit to widen it and inuku it lit for vehicular trallie. As the Thames County Council ;U'o now pushing on witli tho formation of tbe road to Wailcuwaii (tho boundary between Thames and (Joroinaudol) tlicro in no reason why, in a very few months, oUlMjitwons should not lie ablo to drive rigl.it, through to Coromandcl in a buggy. Air Cadman do.servus llu heartiest thanks from all tlio residents both of tho Thames and Uoivimnndel Counti'-'S, for his energetic and sueeesnful ellbrts to secure easy and good interooiiinniuioiition between the two chief centre!! ul population in the (.'oiomundel puuiusuk

The following may be of use to our local house-wives who occasionally pour kerosene on the wood previous to lighting their fires in the morning, as a much safer lireldndlor: —Soak a piece ot coko about the size of a walnut, in kerosene, place it in the midst of the wooil after building the fire, apply a match and the whole will soon be in a blaze. This has been tried, and its efficacy proved. " Zainiel" who writes the" Random shots" I in the " Auckland Star," in reference to the [ calling of tenders for various ofliies in St. ; George's Church, saysretrenchment has rcachcd a high p-tch at the Thames. I do not refer to the Harbour Board s repudiation move, which is the reverse of retrenchment, but to a move in the religious world, where one naturally looks for an example of conformity with the injunction "Owe no man anything." St, George's Church at the Thames is the first to set tlift example of making both ends meet. A local paper has ai: advertismenfc calling for tenders from gentlemen willing to undertake the duties of '* organic, verger, church-cleaner, organblower, collector, &c.," in connection with the church. It is not quite clear whether one person is expected to take all these billets at say £20 a year; but I have no doubt that applicants will be found tenderins for the whole afc ft Igsu figura thau I have named, A ornel suggestion has also been mado that tenders shouW be called for supplying tho congregation with two sermons a week, and it is claimed that better productions could be got at a loss cost than at present, if the tender system were adopted, 11 cannot say that I entirely approve of the latter suggestion, A more excellent way would be for impecunious churches to import a parson from England on a long engagement at English rates of remuneration. Protection to native industry lias not yet reached such a pitch with us as it has in the United States, or the importing of parsons or any other workers, under .agreements, would be impossible. In New York a few months ago the Corporation of Holy trinity Church were fined a thousand dollars for importing a parson from England at a stipulated salary. This penally was imposed in accordance with a law in _ vogue _'n the the United States which forbids the importation of labourers under contract to work for a specified rate of wages.