The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1887.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5823, 28 September 1887, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1887.

The official declaration of the poll for the election of a member for the Thames district will take place at the Court house afc lo o'clock to-morrow morning by Mr JET. A. Stratford, Returning Officer. A scrutiny of the .votes recorded has been made, but we understand that there were very few informal rotes. . The manager of the Saxon telegraphed to' day :—" 20;bs picked atone from the leading «tope on the reef at No. 3 level.—F. JAMB3." Thb whole of the returns hare now been received in connection with the Ooromandel election, that from Whangamata having come to hand to-day. At this place Mr Maokay obtained a block vote.of those recorded, which numbered 20. This makes the total polled by Mr Cad man 665, and Mr Mackay 599, giving a majority for Mr Cadman of 66. Aloh& with our present issue will be found the programme of a grand concert to be given in the Academy of Music to-morrow (Thursday) evening, 29fch inet., in aid of tha f-nds of Sfc. Francis' Koman Catholic Church. The programme is a very aitraotive one, and it will ba seen that among thoae who will take part in the ooncert are Mesdames Bruce, Lawlea.«, and McUermott, Misses McLoughlao, KilgourT Tooher, Foy, and Styak. Mr Detnpgey, who has recently coire to the Thames, is »ho on the list for a song and a recitation. Sbould the weather prove prop! ious, we trust that the efforts of tboae who have had the arr<ngemrnt) in band will tw rewarded by a full house, I

A few days ago while Mr A. Brodir, County Chairman, was in Auckland, he, on beualf of the Drainage Board, had an inter" vi*w with the Hon. Mi- Tole, and laid before him the urgency of the assistarcn needed by the Board towards the scheme of converter the motive power of the Big Puuip from Bteam to waler. Mr Brodie put the whole circumstances of the case so clearly b fore Mr Tole, and showed bow disastrous would be the consequences to the Thames goldfield were the assistance asked for not granted, that the latter gentleman at once telegraphed to the Minister of Mines on the subject; The* r esult was that on the 22nd mat. a telegram was received by Mr Tole from Mr Larnaoh, saying that if £2000 worth of material had been ordored by the County Council for tb t \ purpose of converting Bteam power into water power, he (Mr Larnach) would ask Parliament to vote the £2000 to be contributed by G-overnment as a subsidy. Tha fact of this promise having been obained, and also Mr Larnaoh's re-elce tion, must ba considered very satisfactory, na whatever may bo the action of the present Government, fcbe retention of the portfolio of Minister of Mines by McLarnnch is., certain, and there is no reason to anlicipata any refusal to redeem the prooueo he haa given when he aeks Parliament to graat the vote. In accordance'with the resolution passed at a recent meeting of the Borough Council, a hand-bridge was to-day treated at the Ksrat;a bridge. Spikes h&ve b33n placed along the top of the rail, and will doubtless act as a deterrent to larrikins congregralirg in ibis looality every evening, and insulting .passers* by. Tendbbs wiU be received by Mr W. HHales, District Engineer, ath's office in Auckland, till noon of the 27'h October, for the completion of the Ohineniuri contract (forma* (ion only) of the Hatnilton-G-rabftms'own Railway. An inspection parade of members of the Rifls Bangers takeß place in the Yoluntoer Hull at 7.30 to«mprrow evening, when a full muster is requested. Thbbb is every likelihood of a friendly shooting match taking place at an early date between the members of the Naval Artillery and Rifle Rangers. It ig eaid that the former company has decided to challenge the Bangers to a contest of twenty men aside, which ii almost certain to be accepted. I , We notice in a Napier paper that at an ordination service held at St. John's Church on Sunday 18th inst., two formerly Wesleyan ministers.were admitted to holy orders in tb« Church of England. One of these, the Rev. T. J. Willis, who was for some timo at To Aroba, was ordained prifgt, and the other, the Rev. Oliver Dean, who was at one time in tho Union Bank here, and is known to many of our readers, was admitted to the diaconate. Tbebe is really nothing further to report from the " fiod" which we mentioned a fW days ago had been mado by Messrs Lowrie and Plummer at Waiomo, cbaub threa miles from tho Paroquet claim. A party of gentlemen who visited tho locality yesterday afternoon inform m that the reef has been oat upon the side cf a hill, but very little work has been done upon it. Goad dish prospects are obtainable, but it ia impossible to form a»iy opinion se io the valueab'eneea of the discovery until it has been further developed. Very liUle of the stuff is expo'ed to view, and the formation appears to bo running north* west and southeast. Colors of gold cari ba plainly seen in tho stuff showing in the face, bub whether it goes into the solid stona ir. ia impossible to eay until the lode has been broken down. The prospects aro fnv-rab'e, but not nearly equal to those obtained from the Paroquet claim Tha discovery, however, tends to prove that the district is well worth prospecting, when we have no doubt other discoveries would be made of a permanent naf u-e. 'lhe "find" is ti'uukd upon the ridge between Waiomo and Puj;u, and several olsirnß hare been marked out, but no work is proceeding in any of them. Teh now famous Maori perjury cases have at length been brought to a close at tho Supreme Ccur.:. The fi et case called yester day was that of Hariata, the woman upon whom it was alleged Charles Wight com* Kiitted the rape, which caused Koora to assault him and cut off his ear. She pleaded not guilty, and Messrs Dufaur and O'Meagher were present. rJfhu former intimated that as all tis appeals for a postponement of the trials hud been disregarded, Mr O rMeigher and himself had agreed that they would not call witnesses or cross»examine witnesses for tbe prosecution, as it was intended to bring the .mattes before Parliament, and they would therefore retire from the Court. His . Honor briefly rejoined that their clionts would not Buffer. The ca3e then proceeded, and the jury brought in a Terdict of "Guilty." His Honor discharged the prisoner without sen* tenee, with t'e direction that she was to come up for sentence when called upon, but told her that as long as she behaved well she would not he < all< d. Mariata, another of those committed for perjury, pleaded guilty, and was discharged on the same, terms as Huriat3. Hone pleaded not guilty, but he was convicted. There is another charge against this prisoner of unlawfully wounding Charles Wight, on which he will be arraigned to-day. A nolle proseqtti will be entered by the Crown in the charge of perjury against Tito, a Maori woman, who is stated to be dying of consumption. • Payable washdirt has been found on yet another estate in the Waitoa district, viz: that of Mr Arthur Gubbins. Two tests were made of stuff taken from withiu sixteen yards of each other. One yielded nothing but a trace, the other bullion to the value of over £2 to the ton. ■