NEWS FROM WELLINGTON.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 17, Issue 60, 31 July 1906, Page 5

NEWS FROM WELLINGTON.

[By Telegraph—Own Correspondent] Wellington, Last Night. Last week Mr Way, the American Consulting Engineer on oil-wells, made a most valuable discovery of oilooze on the Bonithon freehold homestead, which is situated on the Main South Road, about twenty chains from the New Plymouth Borough boundary. Urged by a conviction that the property lay right on the oil-run of Taranaki, Mr Way visited the area and found the strongest indications of petroleum all along the banks of the creek, which occupies about twelve chains of the land. Mr Way reckons that a rich oil-well will be found on the property, which is shortly to be bored for petroleum. The first portion of the new Harbour entrance at Nelson will be formally declared open to-day, when the Union Company's steamer Rotoiti is to be taken through the cut in the Boulder Bank. There will be a public demonstration. The cut wais negotiated safely on Thursday morning by the little twin-screw steamer Tasman, which is the first vessel to pass through the new entrance. The Tasman went, into Nelson through the cut an hour after high water. The gentlemen appointed last week as a general Citizens' Committee to organise a reception to Sir Joseph Ward on his return to Wellington, will meet this evening at the Town Hall. The mailboat with Sir -Joseph aboard is signalled at Auckland, but it is not yet known whether he will come direct to Wellington or remain a day in Auckland. . At a meeting at Richmond (Nelson) on Saturday night it was decided to recommend the A. and P. Association to initiate an egg-laying competition. It is proposed to commence the competition in May, 1907. One hundred and twenty-five pens are expected to be entered from the Nelson district.