THE Thames Advertiser. Favour of none: fear of none: justice to all TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1892.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7144, 9 February 1892, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. Favour of none: fear of none: justice to all TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1892.

The cry is still they come—not Mac. beth'a adversaries carrying branches from Birnam wood, but the friends of J the Thames goldfield laden with schemes for ita material regeneration a&d develop' meat. Hie latest to come to the front is the writer of a letter which appears! in yesterday'* Herald, He says that his (| idea of prospecting and testing the low levels on the flat or the base of the hills, where most of the riohest deposits have been met with, would be to form two strong companies—one at'the north end, known as the Big Pump shaft (640 feat deep), to include the Victoria CoV ground, some 40 acres, aud any adjoining company that might be agreeable to join, such as the Kuramri Nos 2 and 3, Hazelbank, and Caledonian. This would make ft splendid company," Then he suggests that the present pimping machinery should " be wiped out of existence, and a more economical class of pumping gear placed outhetijtoift." After that he would " deepen tlio shaft from'the present , 010 feat to 1000 feat, or b? guided by thti cdiliitry or strata met with in the shaft." He " feels sure from the indications met with at thefrtOftlevcl that payable gold will be met with at the lower depths, in the reefs such as the Cale» doniau and Golden Crown reefs which were cut near the pump shaft at the 644 feet level, and' contained splendid minerals and were gcld'bearing; as,well as in numerous other reefs cut in ,the Caledonian low Level Prospecting Company's drive at 640 ft level going cast from the shaft, some of which apparently were outcrops of new reefs or a new strati of country making its appearance. Some of these reefs contained autimouy, copper pyrites, and other good indications, and all contained a little gold, so that there ie little doubt that at deeper levels as rich gold would be met with in those portions of the field as on any of the upper levels, The reefs are there—-a change of country is all that is required;" and—the writer feels sure'—" this would be obtained by sinking"/ Such is the first part of the proposal propounded in the letter now under notice. The second part is that another company should be formed for the southern end of the field. In this part of bis project the writer would take advantage of " the Queen of Beauty shaft, which is now down 748 feet and take in the adjoining company, the Saxon; At this end of the field the strata traversed by reefs are some* what different from those in the north end, The reefs in this part of-, the field are almost perpendicular, and some of j tho principal reofa in both tho Queen of Beauty and the Saxon have an underlie to llio south-east, while ol the Big Pump <)nd the prinoip*l,ieefs have an underlie to tho north'west, Hence, one shaft and ono company would be useless to prospect t]jis area of 'ground," Tho write)/ thoi) goes on to give tolerably good reasons for the faith tljat is in J him with regard to the results which would follow tho'conßtitutiou of the companies] he proposes, and concludes by ob» teeing that a previous corres-i pondent, in "quite right in saying! that if we are to do anything to stimulate the Thames mining industry, it should be undertaken without loss of time;" aud therefore, ior himself, he suggests that " the sooner Auckland and Thames business men and the public generally take this matter into considers tion, the better it will be for, the whole community."

So rnoto it be! And after so much j talk OB all frauds, bow very refreshing a little vital action would bo, especially if It omauatcd from a sufficiently compact body of resolute aiid capable men!

The Davys' Bright Lights company open in the Academy ef Music to-night, whon an unusually attractive programme, full of variety and vivacity, will .be,presented to Ithopnblio;

| Mr Barry' Coney, who has been for a number of years on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand here, left yesterday to join the staff of the branch at Whangarei, Mr Coney is a painstaking and most industrious officer, while as a pianist he has no superior in this country outside the ranks of professional players. Uar loss is therefore Whangarei's gain in more trays than ono,

The Obinomuri Gazette of Saturday con* tains the following paragraph: Ihere iB nothing sew in oonneotion with the railway works. The Salvation Army gang are getting on as well as any of them, .Thoy have their band with them, and nightly pray that they may bo to make the orthodox 8s per didf, A weird cry occasionally, noes op from some of the camps," Oh Blook 27, Hook 27, why did I lava ye," '

Three cabownora—namely, W i I Liarn Ourtie, William Baker, and Thomas Godkin, were charged at the Police Conrb yesterday with a breaoh of the Borough byJaw No 35, trhioh onsets that cabowners shall keep a statement of faros posted up in their carriages, Scrgent Gillies explained that tint was the first time the police had taken proceedings under tho by law, which, however, tbey were determined to enforce; but in tho present icatance thoy asked only for the imposition of a nominal penalty, Tho Bench fined Curtis Is and costs 2s, and ttya oases against Godkin and Baker wero" adjqUrnod to th? 15th jost, the presiding justices were Mr H&olden and Mr It, T, Douglas,

At the annua! meeting of the Auckland district members oE tho Manchester Unit; Oddfellows there was n large attendance, and tho ohair v was oooupied by Grand iloster C, Rowe. The annual roporti and atatemoLt of accounts showed that there are in the Auckland provincial district ton lodges, with a membership of 1,058. The total income for the paut year was £6,139 la; disbursements to members in s : ok pay, £1,763 139 8d; medical fees, £876 14s 9d; other expenses* £3,109 13s 3d. The total value ot the sick fund for the various lodge) was stated to be £28,273 8s 7d. management (ands, 17,620 9s 7d; tottl at Decsmber 31st, 1891, £42,187 16a 3d. It was decided to sand Bro. C, 9, Wright; as a delegate from the district to the forthcoming Jubilee, of OddfeDotrship at Nelron in April next,

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