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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2044, 23 July 1875, Page 2

:~ln out" advertisement'■"columns to-day" are published the Regulations for :A gricultural Leases in the Ohinemuri Goldfield. It is probable that before they come into operation some alteration may be made, but, as gazetted, readers may be interested in the provisions under which areas may be taken lip for occupation. In the window of Mr Burra, stationer, were exhibited today two samples of gold obtained from the Brothers claim, Tairua. One sample appeared to be nearly all black sard ; the other —• about eight ounces—was rich looking gold mixed with quartz.: These parcels were obtained by sluicing. ; We learn. that Mr Hales, of Tairua, has again to put up with equine loss, another of his horses having left the track and fallen orer the precipice. Whether it was from the effects of the " fiz ''and beer so liberally dispensed at the opening of the Bright Smile Battery yesterday, or from some unknown influence, we cannot say, but there was an unaccountable disposition to indulge in pugilistic encounters evinced.. More than one little battle took place near the new battery and later in the day, we hear that a fracas took place at a hostelry not a hundred miles from the:; same spot, in which a gentleman who had figured at the opening of the battery was one "of the belligerents. . : Thebe was a good bit of businessdoing in the sharemarket to-day, but not a single transaction in Tairuas up to 12 -o'clock. The business was principally confined to Thames stocks, which appear to be more in favor than for some days past. ■ - '■'.[■■ -' '■ ■. ■"■ ': ; *; ■■■: '■'\.,:;' t'' A CORBESPONDEHT writing from Tairua states that a gentleman has been-yisiting-: the Brothers Claim, Pride of the' South and others in the neighborhood with the view of erecting machinery. ■-.„ We hear that it is Mr D. Tookey who '"purposes going into the spec, and that he has offered terms on which he \willvbe; pre-; pared to erect a forty stamper battery. To day's news has been replete with disasters. ; Early in the morning news. was received of the destruction of Glover's Royal Hotel atCoromandel by fire. The Wellington telegrams next informed us that a young man had shot himself through the head and was not expected to recover, and that the engineer of the: steamer Fairy had been found dead leaning against a rail. And a subsequent Auckland telegram adds to the list of horrors by informing us that a seaman of a: coasting schooner had been washed overboard and drowned, and that a Maori had murdered his wife by hacking her in pieces with a tomahawk. -