SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10721, 19 June 1906, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, this day. I understand the Sha w, Savill Co. have secured the contract for Carrying water pipes and material from London to Gisborne. Professor Easterfield's analv6i6 of Taranaki petroleum shows the following : Dis. dilation test, benzine 20 per cent., burn, ing oil 40, lubricating oil 37, pitch 2, loss 1 per cent., total 100 per cent. Crude benzine, re-distilled, yielded 66 per cent, of naphtha. The kerosene is of greater density than wliite rose oil, and shows a greater tendency to smoko when burned m American lamps. This defect is also shown m Russian kerosenes, but it is largely overcome by the practical manufacturer. The heavy oil is a good lubricant. Mr Fair, manager of the Company, m reporting, say 6: "At present the 'birthday well' ig a payable one. From past experience I should say the life of this well is probably ten or twelve years,, hut it will not necessarily be a flowing well the whole of that period. WELLINGTON, this day. The Athenic brought 4.0 passengers to the colony, of whom 396 are immigrants from London. They are a line, healthy looking lot, men and women, who should make satisfactory settlers. There is a party of twenty domestic servants engag. Ed to residents at Hastings, Hawke's Bay, who were sent north by the Talune. The immigrants report that thousands of people are out of work m all quarters of England, and the office of the New Zea. land Agent-Geueral is besieged with inquiries from hundreds daily. Another passenger from South Africa gives a doleful account of the! state of affaira m that country, "and states that the only man who has any chance is the skilled worker.

The V.M.C.A. meet this evening m St. Andrew's school room. Messrs Miller and_ Craig draw special attention to the clearing sale of household furniture to bo held on the premises of Mrs Smith, Read's Qwj, to-morrow afternoon. ■ • " i