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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 30 May 1885, Page 2

The manager of the Cambria Q.M.. Co. telegraphed early this morning:—" 1801bs specimens from underhand stope j good chow left.—B. W. Moobe."

Intending candidates for examination as pupil teachers and teachers under the Board of Education will be held at Auckland, Thames, and Hamilton, on Tuesday, 30!h June. Names must ba Bent in before 20lh

June next.

OwiKG to a falling eff in the river trade, the Te Aroba will cease running to Paeroa for a time.

Theee is a report extant to the effect that the Queen of Beauty mine is to be floated in an English company, with a capital sufficient to provide machinery capable of materially aiding in prospecting the deep.levels of the field.

The neceßsity for a second battery at Otanui is being felt by the owners of the mines-outside the Eureka. It is on the taj)ls> so we have heard, that efforts are being made to have one erected near, and for, the Oriental Company, whose property is developing proportions that will, ere long, compel that, company to hav;3 crushing power of its own. " Advance Otunui," aa fcho progress of that diatrict intimately affects the Thames proper. At the meeting of the Kuranui Hiil GkM* Co., held in Auckland yesterday, a resolution was passed by which it was fesolrod to continue operations in the mine.

At the Po'len street Lecture Hall to-morrow evening, Mr E. H. Taylor will lecture on— "How is personality preserved in death ?"

Thebk was only a moderate attendance at tho service of eong, " Kva," given bj the members of 'he-choir cf the Grahamatown Wealejan Church in the Turaru Sunday School-room last evening, though tho aervke was rery creditably porformed. Mr li. D. Stewart very ably gave the readings, while Mr 8. Dabb presided at the harmonium. At the conclusion of the programme, Mr Vivian thanked those who had as istod to make the eatorlainmont a success, and stated that it would be re-produoad in the G-raharnstown and Shortland Churches about a fo<t night heucoi The pronunciation of the benediction to,iv»inaterl a v*ry pleasant entertainment,

The annual meeting of the Bluo Eibbon Army will be held in the Grood Tempar Hall on Tuesday evening next, when a large attendance of those interested in temperance work is requeued. The annual report will bo pre« sented to the meeting, and officers elected for the ensuing year. Daring the evening the meeting will be addressed by several ministers and friends

A most interesting Service of Song will be rendered in tho Primitive Methodist Church on Monday nest, and as-the proceeds are to reduce the Church debt, there should be a large attendance. [For particulars Bee advertisement:] v

Skinnt Men.—Wells' " Health Bonewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Debility. At druggists.—KemptUoi'ae, Proeser and Co,, Agent?, Auckland.

Thb steamer McGregor has been successfully floated off the rocka at Kawau, and beached at Bon Accord harbor, where she will be repaired and brought into Auckland.

Ms Thomson, M.H.B. foe Auckland Oifcy \Novth, addressed his constituents last; night. He expressed his regret that the present Government was not. formed on purely parfcy linefy and saw no hopes of it being done next sesei -n, or, indeed, in the present Parliament. He bitterly donouncsd the distrint railway purehaso scheme, and deprecated the enorraouß defence expenditure through the war scare, which, he thought, should have been extended over a aeries of years. He was averse to the annexation of Fiji to New Zealand, and preferred the federation of the Empire to the federation of the Australian Colonies; A vote of confidenea was unanimously accorded him.

The Auckland City North Licensing Committee have notified no less than cix houses of objection to renewing licenses on fan ground of Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation, and noli required ia the neighborhood.

A MAN named W. B. Stanley, while cleaning the spouting on the roof of the City Hots! in Dunedin yesterday slipped and fell through a ekjlight, falling a' distance of 35 feet on to the asphalt in the back yard. He is not expected to live. A telegram states that he has since died.

The Government has received official intimation that the New Zealand loan has been placed on the London market at a minimum of 97|.

Charles Hoy, au old man, dropped dead in Otahuhu from heart disease. He had been drinking.

This morning the Bank of New Zealand made an interim shipment per Rofcomabana for Auckland of 1858ozs 3dwts of gold ; it will bo remembered that on the sth inst. the Bank shipped 50130z3.

Boilebs cannot burn that are kept c^ean and with water at full height. Oil is a moat pernicious substance to admit to a boiler. A little coda added occasional'y to the feed water will prevent corrosion by acid waters.

iN-the last letter of Gordon's made piiblici he writes : " I will accept nothing whatever from Gladstone's Government. I will not let them pay my expenses. I will never set foot in England again."

At the Government Insurance meeting, last night, Sir Julius Yogel Btated that ift was the intention to do away with the industrial branch of the institution ; and another stop that had been decided on was to increase the rates of premium* on new polieyholders. The latter coureo had been adopted on the strong recommendation of thiir acturaial advisers.