LATEST THAMES NEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Thursday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4078, 16 September 1870, Page 2

LATEST THAMES NEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) Thursday.

Resident Magistrate's Court. — George Wilson, charged with drunkenness and vagrancy, was fined 205., or 48 hours, and remanded on the second charge. — Waata, a native, was charged with assaulting Alpha Blakeley, an officer of the Court of Petty Sessions. — The complainant deposed to being Bailiff of the Court, and, in obedience to the warrant of execution issued by the Court at the suit of E. Mattocks against a native. named Pahia, he seized a boat belonging to defendant, lyJng in the Kawaeranga Creek. Another man and himself held possession, until about two o'clock, -nhen a party of Maoris, numbering some ten or a dozen, came down to the wharf, and violently dispossessed them, defendant being amongst tho number. A great row ensued, and the police interfered, bub arrived too late to save the boat, whioh had been launched by the Maoris, oncl was then being pulled lapidly up the Kauwaerauf'a Creek, with nearly ail the Maoris on board. — Defendant said the boat belonged to his daughter. — A line of £1 and costs was inflicted. — The boat was afterwards seized in the Kauwaeranga Creek. Odd Fellows' Festival. — The members of the Waikato Lodge of 1. 0.0. P,, M.U., assembled last night, at the Richmond-street Hall. Shortland, to celebrate the first anniversary of the Lodge at the Thames. Brother Place presided, with Brother Bagnall in the vice-chair. The table was crowded, there being a great many visitors, who must have thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment. The usual loyal and other toasts were given, and a very pleasant evening was spent.

MINING. Moawataiari No. 2 (late Pai Marire).— The tribufcers cleaned up yesterday, and retorted at a late hour last evening, the result being 490z. 3dwt., besides about l£oz. to come out of the scrapings, &c. Thirty-two tons of stone were crushed. Henceforward the ground will be worked by the Moanataiari Company, to whom it belongs, as the tributers' term of occupation has so very nearly expired as to render another start on their part inexpedient. lam given to understand that they have taken up the old Don Pedro Claim on tribute. Nolans Candlelight No. I.— The gold obtained from the paddock of stone lately crushed at Weston's machine was lodged in the Bank of New Zealand this morning. It weighed 650z. after melting, and is the produce of 6C tons of stone taken out of the lower-level workings of the claim from the galleries of the winze which has been sunk 95 feet on the lode from the level of the main tunnel. This crushing is without exception the poorest in connection with Candlelight No. 1 Claim, and is attributed in a great measure to a patch of hard country which made just where the stone came from. The country having again softened, and the reef proportionately improved, a recurrence of the old style of returns, from 2oz. to 3oz. the ton, is looked for.