GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 584, 12 July 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The application from a Rotorua syndicate for 1000 acres for oil exploration purposes seems to have some basis. A sample taken from the surface flow has been analysed by Dr J. S. McLaurin, Dominion analyst. He reported tlie sample was composed of benzine and light oil, distilling below 10 degrees centigrade; 2 per cent, burning oil, distillng between 150 degrees and 300 degrees centigrade; 30 per cent, lubricating oil, distilling above 30 degrees centigrade; 62 per cent, and residue, pitch etc., 6 per cent. Commenting on the analysis Dr McLaurin wrote —"The oil contains a very high percentage of lubricants, but is deficient in benzine and light oil 3 these probably having evaporated from the crude oil owing to surface exposure. It is a crude petroleum of good quality. As pumice land is not usually oil-bearing the petroleum has probably come from underlying rocks of a different nature." The explanation of the fact that less than 25 per cent, of university women marry is said to be that they have few opportunities of meeting male collegians on an equal and friendly footing. Educational competition, too, makes for antagonism. Ninety per cent, of the girla educated at Newnfcam College follow scholastic pursuits which make them pedantic and unattractive to men, and pressure of work prevents them from cultivating the aharnis of the women that they call parasite women. Speaking at a banquet with which the proceedings of the Road Congress were brought to a close, Mr John Burrs, president of the Board of Trade, declared that it would be necessary for science to respond to the demands of the new system of traction and the increasing ingenuity of the engineer and the surveyor. Tho disappearance of the horse and the use of tar and macadam, Mr Burns said, would have a tremendous influence on the health of the people. One reason for the high price of bullocks in the Wellington provincial district is said tu bed the invasion of this district by Auckland buyers Hitherto these buyers have only come as far south as Gisborr.e, but now they are dealing on the West Coast of the North Island. They are reported to have paid £lB per head for oullocks from the Taihape district—certainly very prime beasts. Next year, in connection with mili tary training under canvas, all the field troops of each of the four military districts of the Dominion will be concentrated at the same time in one camp. The following units of the Auckland District will be encamped at Hautapu, near Cambridge, during the last week in April and the first week in May:—Mounted Rifles Brij gade, Field Artillery Brigade. No. 3 Field Company Engineers. Divisional I Signal Company, Mounted Signal Troop, Infantry Brigade, Coast Defence Infantry Detachmei.t, and Field Ambulances. There will only be one casual camp in the district, at which all casuals will attend during May. The Garrison Artillery camps will be held as usual about the forts.