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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 150, 22 December 1911, Page 7

From the Government Printing Bureau at Ottawa we have received a copy of "Tide Tables of the Pacific Coast of Canada," with data for slack water in the navigable passes and other useful information, prepared ■by Mr. W. Bell Dawson, Superintendent of the Tidal and Current Survey Department of Canada.^ The work is indispensable to mariners trading to the Pacific coast. On the Hauraki Plains, in the Thames | Valley, near Auckland, the Government j has put down five artesian wells to depths of from 300 ft to 600 ft. A splendid supply of water haa been met with in each case, the flow rising several feet above the surface, and yielding from 4000 gallons up to 115,200 gallons per day. 4 But the water is warm sodawater, and the people who first drink at the crystal flow usually cet a taste which makes them look thoughtful for awhile. As a matter of fact (says the Auckland Herald) although this water can- be ranked as a first-class corrective in cases of rheumatism or bladder troubles it is not a pleasant beverage, and the settlers have not yet cultivated a taste for it, co they depend on rain. Stock seem to like this drink even unadulterated, and thrive on it, and there seems a likelihood now that the district k carrying so many cows that milk and sodawatel 1 will become the general product of these newly-reclaimed fertile plains. «Mt. Wiig, Norwegian sub-Consul, stated to a Southland Times reporter a day or two ago that all arrangements had been completed at this end in connection with the Norwegian whaling expeditions which will shortly make a descent on Southern seaa. The ve;>sels would have reached her© sooner but for the strike in the Old Country, several of them having through' it been greatly delayed in their fitting out. The medical 6Uperiutondeut of the Porirua Mental Hospital acknowledges with thanks tho "following donation* towards the ' Christmas entertainment of Lhe patients: — Anonymous £4 4s and £1 li*, Mrs. T. G. M'Carthy £2 2 Si Mr«. Benson £1, Mrs. O'Halloran 10s, Messrs. Grwr £1, G. Stevens £1, Munguvin 10s, "W.E.8." 10s, Head ss, Pakeham 2s 6d. Messrs. Duncan and Macintosh, men's outfitters, iNlanuors-sti'Oct, are showing novelties in men's wear, .suitable for Christinas gifts. An amended lis,t of city and suburban properties is advortiscd in this issue by Messrs. \liller and Rutter, 35, Panamastreet Tho holiday time-tnble for the harbour few* steamers afipeaw iv our advcrtLun^ columns. Attention is drawn to tho fact that the Garrisc-n Bund vvilL pltiv at Day's Bay next Sunday ttftcni&ou and on Box-