LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Thames Star, Volume XLII, Issue 10683, 11 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

May Queen shares have steadily improved in value, and to-day exchanges were made at 2s 7d and 2s Bd, with good buyers at 2s 7d. The old Deep Sinker machinery has been found to be in good condition and all works well except the bottom plunger, which is out of goal*. Moanaiaiari shares are coming into better demand and sales were made at 2s 5d and 2s 4d, there being further buyers at the latter price at the close. Waiotahi shares were again active to-day, exchanges being made at 63s 6d, 62s 6d, 635, and 625, while at the close there were buyers at G2a 3d, but no response from sellers. The Registrar of Electors requeue j all persons for whom claims for enrolment have been left by the official canvassers to return same to him duly filled in, and signatures witnessed, us soon as possible. Caledonian shares were active today and. several sales were made at 3s 2d and 3s 3d, while rights were exchanged at Is sd. After the noon call there were buyers of Caledonians at 3s and rights Is id.

It is stated that Mr A. Hogarth, formerly manager of the Mbnowai mine at Waiomo, and who journeyed to Efngland some months back, is at present in Sydney and will probably return to New ZealanS for a period. At yesterday morning's sitting. of the Police Court, Thomas Pennel, charged with the larceny of jewellery valued at £10, the property of Mrs Tetley, of Paeroa, was brought up and formally remanded to Paeroa to appear there on, Wednesday to answer tho charge. The team to represent Native Rose 11. in their match on Saturday will be picked from; the following: Menries, Pearse, Rabe, McCollum, Bush, Friday, McGinn, Glenn, Hunter, .Maxwell, Wilton, Ryan, McMillan, Dare, Williams, Hlansen, Preeee, Dann, Wright, Thompson, Floyd, Scott and Amy. A 1 Cabbage Bay correspondent writes: It might interest your readers to learn of the engagement of Miss Violet Eveline (Vi), second daughter of Caroline and the late William Boxall, of Waiotahi, Thames, to Willi2?n> youngest son of the late. Andrew OiiO; of Thames «nd Auckland."

A young man named Tyrrel employed in the> WaiotaM mine, crushed his thumb rather badly this morning and was obliged to have it treated at the local hospital. At the Police Court tins morning, before Mr W. McCullough, a man named C. 0. Marßon, charged with | drunkenness, was1 fined 5s in default 24 hours. The same accused was remanded on a charge of failing to appear at the Auckland Court. The following will represent tho Rover 11. team : Full, Gribble; threequarters, Keating, Hayward, Worthing; five-eighths, Jones; half-back, Deans; wings, R. Merriman and Me- j Pike; forwards, W. Dare, Nixon, Williams, C. Dare, Moran, O'Toole^ and Baker; emergencies, K. Merriman and Fanning. There is some desultory mining doing by small claim holders at Hikutaia. One party of four in the old Retreat ground is doing well, shipping the ore through a,n Auckland firm to Cockle Creek, Newcastle, New South, Wales. Other ground is being taken up. In other industries Messrs. Faitliful and MeConnell are doing big business in log hauling, and the gum industry is flourishing, a large number of Austrians> being steadily at work.

There wasi a large attendance at the Miners' Union Hall last night when the Battalion Band held an extended promenade concert. The musio supplied by Mr and Mrs A. Martin and Bandmaster Clarke, was all that could be desired, the catering by Mr A. Billings was excellent. Bandsman R. W. Wilson was M.C. Miss McCormick won the nail driving competition, while Miss M. Potts secured the booby prize. Duets were rendered by Mr and Miss Hardman, Master and Miss Gordon, solos by Miss A. Potts and Gill, and Mfc1 Kirby, while Mr Oswald contributed a recitation.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin reports that at the Police Court. Walter Attewells, Robert Augustus Palmer, and William Jones were remanded on charges of vagrancy, as other charges are pending. The detectives discovered a plant of jewellery where the men resided, and the articles have been recognised as having been stolen from three different houses during the past few days. Fresh developments are expected within a few days. Finger-prints of the. accused have been sent to the Wellington bureau for examination and- comparison.