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Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 488, 14 August 1906, Page 5

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« The ladies' monthly stroke competition will be played on Wednesday, 15th, with the following handicaps : —Miss Knight 2, Mrs Robertson S, Mrs.Gurr 9, Miss Young 10, Mrs 'Baddeley 12, Mrs Potts 14, Miss Guy, Miss Wright, Miss Baker, Miss Herbert, Mrs Baiilie, Miss Russell, Mrs Lawford, Mrs Nymand, Miss Smith and Miss Pettit 16. Juniors — Miss Micliell 9, Mrs Lloyd 10, Mrs Hartgill 12, Miss Webber 12, Mrs Stewart 16, Mrs Simmers, Miss Robertson, Miss Freeman, Miss Light, Miss Wishavr, Miss Harrison and Mrs Russell 18. Trophies presented by Mrs Robertson for seniors and juniors will be played for on Saturday, ISfch, with, sealed handicaps. The result of the drawing for the ladies' championship is as follows : — F-rst round— Mrs Irvine plays Miss Wishaw, Miss Baker plays Miss Guy, ! Miss Webber plays Mrs Hartgill, Miss Michell plays Mrs Nyruand, Miss Herbert plays Miss Light, Mrs Baddeley plays Miss Freeman, Mrs Wright plays Miss Russell, Mrs Bailiie plays Mirs Robertson, Mrs Gurr plays Mrs Russell, Mrs Lawford plays Miss Harrison, Mrs Lloyd plays Miss Pettit, Miss Young plays Miss E. Light, Miss Smyth plays Miss Knight, Miss Robertson plays Mrs J. Armstrong, Mrs Simmers plays Miss Cooper, Mi's Potts plays Miss Robertshawe. The first round is to be played before the sth September.

catching lire. Thousands oi barrels of oil Hooded the surrounding ground, saturating it, and forming a score of pools. A huge reservoir had been constructed to hold tho oil, and the great tank was filled. In tho summer, thunderstorms rage witii fearful fury and frequency in that semitropical climate, and during one of them a lightning flash made the great reservoir an appalling blaze. The iirc leapt along the earth like a living thing — on to the great well. The terrilic heat about the pipe sprang the valve, and the gas from it was licked up by the ilaiuos. Still more intense grew the heat, until at last the valve-cap melted, and tho mighty gusher broke forth. Night and day the iiro burned at its own sweet "will, and could bo seen by day for thirty miles around, while its glow in the darkness was visible for fifty miles. During the six days and an hoirr that the fire burned, the plans suggested and the experiments tried upon it were innumerable. Meanwhile 5000 barrels of precious oil per day were going up in 6inoke, and the owners of the well offered ten thousand dollars to anybody who could extinguish the flames. A man named Jack E'nnis, who had made a study of the best way to fight oil fires, hurried to the scene of the iirc. He had found out that water will not extinguish oil fires — hut wind will. He was the only applicant for the ten thousand dollars, and he laid his project before the owners of tl'.c well. His notion seemed absurd, for he suggested nothing less than blowing out the fire — a conflagration that water and chemicals had no effect upon ! As a last resort, the owners consented to let tho Texan try his scheme. Elnnis promptly telegraphed to every city within reasonable distance for portable steamboiler's, and the following morning every railway train brought one or more. Wag-gon-loads of 4in pipe were also arriving, some of it pliable hose, and some heavy ivon. This was attached to the boilers, and led up to the edge of the flames. Meanwhile, 6tcam was got up. A circle of sal ammoniac was laid around, to keep the oil and the fire from being blown along the ground, and when everything was in readiness Ennis gave his signal, and each engineer turned on the steam simultaneously. The steam charged the fire gallantly, and the latter soon fell back, for it could not cross the noxious fumes generated by the heaps of chemicals, renewed continually by an army of men. The fire fought hard for life, leaping back on poorly-guarded spots every now and then; but, finally, tho flames began to fall and flicker, and their fate was sealed. When the last one left the surface a mighty shout went up from a thousand parched throats. Ac for the obscure fighter, Jack Ennis, he received hi 9 ten thousand dollars on the spot in cash, and thus his fortune was made.