Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9876, 22 February 1901, Page 4

Local and General.

A Wellington telegram states that Parliament was yesterday further prorogued to 18th April.. A telegram has been received fronu the manager of the Maratoto G.M.: Company that good ore was yesterday struck in the low level on the Payrock reef. Mr H. C. Woolmer has arrived* at Maratoto.- He is authorised to expend jsomethin^ like £30,000, and as lie is a careful< manager, the expcndture_ should be judiciously, made. ■ ■„,.. Norbury's salvage stock at Scott's cash shop, Pollen street. Further particulars in a day or two.—Advt. Quartz of an even grade continues to bo won by the tributers engaged at the May Queen Hauraki mine, and there is every promise that the next crushing will be a satisfactory one. At the Waiotahi G,.M. Co.'s battery ten stumps. are engaged in crushing quartz. The stone maintains its average value, and the return should be of the same- satisfactory nature as before. The mine has been one of the most consistently worked in the district, and has I never failed to return regular dividends to shareholders.

Men's all wool colonial made suits, worth 2^B 6d, for 18a 6d, during Cullen and Co.'s summer sale. Men's all wool colonial trousers 6a 6d, worth 7s 6d.— Advb.

"Thames is very quite jusb now" said a visitor, from Te Aroha to our represent tative yesterday; "in fact I cannot remember having seen it quieter. Bub it is always the way' with goldminirig districts. They go up and down and just when things are at their worst something occurs, prospects improve, and away the district goes again. There is a good time ahead for the Thames, despite the present slackness.. Te Aroha is very quiet, but wa are waiting patiently for better' times.' 1

Men's hats in felt, straw or linen suitablu for the holidays, cheap and good at the Beehi™.~Advfc.

Rcforring to the Tasmaniaa appointmenb secured by Mr P. J. McLeod, 8.A., Director of the Coromandel School of. Miries '.the News states that he succeeds his brother us Lecturer at the University and Technical Schooi at Hobart } tho brother having been appointed Director of the School of Mines at Charters Towers. Both of tho gentlemen \ received their technical instruction at tho Thames School of Mines and then graduated, -at tho Dun odin University]..- It is yeiy gratifying to find that tho New Zenlariders are so much in requisition, in the adjacent; colo-. niea, and goes to prove that the standard of education imparted iri this colony is of a high order.

A laugh was raised at last night's meeting of the Thames Borough Council by ; Cr Scott, who was speaking re the propopl to'tar and .sand the footpaths. "Havo we got plenty of tar?" queried the councillor mentioned, and being answered in the affirmative went on to say: "A mistake waa very nearly made that would cost) the Council a good sum. A barrel of treacle was about to be used instead of tiir, and the cost of treacling, with the '. price at 5d per lb, would have surprised the Council.* The councillors laughed, and did not arguo that Thames was sufficiently progressive to use treacle instead v of tar for tho covering and solidification &f the borough footpaths! ;

Several of the visitors from Te Aroha yesterday paid a visit to the buildings containing the splendid pumping plant of the Thames Huuraki Company, while a few strolled up to the Waiotahi Company's mine and battery, and to the handsome crushing plant of the Mounatuiari Cpnipany. They expressed their . astonishment at the magnitude of the operations of the Thames Hauraki Comipany and expressed" the hope that a good return would ye t be secured for the outlay- of the company and the New Zealand Government. Though they did not s>oo the Moanatuiari Company's battery at •work they recognised that the plant was a thoroughly up-to-date one. The visitors greatly enjoyed their short stay at i Pui'U and Thames. • ■ |