NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
[per press association.] HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF. Gisborne, July 13. Mr. Weaver, the mine manager of the South Pacific Petroleum Works, reports that the third sand was struck at 1140 feet, the drill being. 40 feet in advance. This drill bored one foot into this sand, when a good show of oil was found; and the plug w&s then inserted according to the instructions from Sydney. Upon opening the hole theplug was found to have been forced up 40 feet from the bottom of the pipe, and some 60 or 70 feet of oil and Band forced round the plug into the pipe. The rammer was then placed on the plug, which was driven ten feet of the bottom ; all the fluid was then bailed out, but within an hour the pipe filled to the same depth again. It was bailed out three times with the same result. Mr. Weaver estimates the present indications as good for 20 to 30 barrels in tho well. [This is almost a repetition of what occurred at Moturoa twenty years ago.—Ed. T.H.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7115, 13 July 1886, Page 2
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180NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7115, 13 July 1886, Page 2
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