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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9085, 18 May 1891, Page 2

The petroleum experts expect to make a start again at boring this week. When once the bore is deepened the value of the indications that are now showing will be properly guaged. -*,

The steamers Waitara and Mohaka were both discharging cargoes of Mokau coal at Waitara to-day (Mqnday). The work, up at the mines on the Mokau is progressing favorably, and there is every sign of Maryville (or New Jerusalem, as some call it) becoming a compact town some day.

The performance of the comic opera, " Pinafore," by local' amateurs, under Mr Sparks' conductorship, on. Monday night next, promises to be most successful. A full rehearsal was held on Saturday night, when everything went off quite smoothly.

At the Land Board meeting to-day, (Monday) 2,926 acres of land were disposed of. There were 1,320 acres on perpetual lease, 236 on deferred payment, and 1,370 acres comprising a small grazing run. ■ The skeleton of a whale never before seen in England has been lodged in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, from the Behring Sea. This whale (Rfuxchianectes gkiucus) is now f ou.nd only in the northern - parts of the" Pacific and in the Sea of Kamtschatka ; but as fossil remains of the same or a nearly identical species -have been discovered in Norway and Sweden, it has been inferred that the animal once had a munh wider range.

. , The, following pig story, taken from a newspaper published in Ireland is not so bad : — At Milltown May fair pigs were in groat demand ; and sold at extraordinary prices. A man from-Killarney bought a pig for 29s 6d, and paid for it ; the buyer and seller parting equally pleased. The buyer was also in want of a cow; and whilst looking about to suit himself put his now purchase in the inn yard for safe keeping. Having found what he wanted, he prepared to pay for her also ; and found to his horror that he had parted with his £5 note, whilst the £1 note — which he supposed himself to have paid for the pig — was still in his " pocket. He went in search of the vendor of the pig — being Rure that to him, by mistake, the £5 note had been transferred ; but he was not in the fair, and no one could tell his address, or even his name. The Killarney man was •at a non-plus ; but a happy thought striking, him, he loosed the pig from the inn yard in order^to see which way Bhe would go. She started slowly at first ; and her new owner was too wise^to , press her ; at last, however, she broke into a long gallop; and it was all he could do to keep up with her. She led him nine miles into Cromane; stopped before a cabin, which she presently entered with the air of being at home. The proprietor came out, and, recognising his customer, asked what he wanted. " Show mo that note," was the response ; and it was done freely. The Cromane man, not being a scholar, bad not deteoted the error. Mutual apologies were exchanged, and the pig was sent home to her new owner.

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