DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

BORING FOR OIL. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) GISBORNE, Aug. 14 Taranaki Oil Company's weekly report is as follows: —Gisborne No. 1 well, 6i-inch diameter easing run to 2900 ft; now cleaning out. Gisborne No. 2 well: Drilled to 1440 ft in sandstone and shale; 10-incli diameter casing run to 1400 ft, SUPREME COURT AT NAPIER. NAPIER, Aug. 14. Only civil actions and the punishment of prisoners who had pleaded guilty were the business for the Supreme Court which opened l to-day. Mr •Justice Macgregor presided.

WINTER DROUGHT BROKEN. WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. After more than a. month’s fine weather :i n unusual winter drought broke last night and a good rain has fallen, t he hydro-electric supply dams at Mangahao were badly in need of water and °.ie Wellington steam supply has been in use for some time. A BAD TIME IN AUSTRALIA. AUCKLAND, Aug. 14. In addition to tlie imposter, Robert William Gunter, who was deported from Sydney, the Marama which arrived to-day brought two other free passengers, stowaways, who were handed over to the police. Both are New Zealanders who walked aboard with other passengers and disclosed their olience when the vessel was outside Sydney heads. They were put in the third class.

“They treated us right,” said one stowaway, who said they left New Zealand twelve months ago and were unable to obtain employment. They went hungry and had no place to sleep at times. They were glad to get back where a chap at the worst could get a meal.

HOMEWARD BOUND. WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. The New Zealand Olympic team leaves Southampton by the Ruahine on September 4 via Panama. EXPRESSES DELAYED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. The Limited express did not arrive fill eleven o’clock, five and a quarter •hours late. This wa's due to heavy weather on the Eaurimu spiral. The second express, conveying the English mail, via Vancouver, which -Was due at 12.33 p.m. was delayed also by wo'a4her and did noit arrive till after one o ’clock.

ENGLISH TEAM WELCOMED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. The English League team was accorded a Government reception to-day at Parliament Buildings by the Hon. W. Downie Stewart and the Hon. K. S. Williams. In the absence of the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Mr Stewart emphasised that international visits of sportsmen were a means of strengthen; ing the bonds of Empire