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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7268, 22 July 1893, Page 3

The following tenders wore received yes* I torday fay the Cemetery Board for survey of addition to Timaru cemetery Meason and Merchant, £lB (accepted) ; J. Smith, £24 5 J. Boys, ninepence per plot. At Chrietchuroh yesterday 6048 acres of land on the Ellesmere flats were ballotted for at the Lands Office, and 5586 acres were disposed of on perpetual lease, in 45 lots ( which were taken by 36 selectors. The total rental will be £590, For a few lots there were no applicants, and the most coveted, a 93-acre lot, bad 82 applicants. None of the land is fit for cropping owing to the inundations of the lake, but when dry it is all good grazing ground. The Southland Times does not think much will come out of the Government’s offer for a bonus for the production of oil from the kerosene shale at Orepuki, and says «• When the failure of the natural flow of petroleum from the bowels of Pennsylvania and Baku raises the value of kerosene in these colonies New South Wales is ready to step into the breach and supply Australasia with oil from a shale so rich that it is now 1 being freely exported to Europe to improve the quality of the gas consumed so far away as Vienna. This Now South Wales mineral is 100 per cent, richer than that at Orepuki, so that tbe export of the pr )duee of the latter is not likely to be large. We shall do well • if we can supply ourselves." 1 Highly recommended for Invalids and 1 1 delicate Children -Attisebbook’B Cracknel!. Digestive and Arrowroot Biscuits—[AdVl'J