TODAY'S TELEGRAMS
(PXB PRBSB ABSOOIATIOir.;| ? TaranaU Petroleum. NbwPlyuop^h. Deoember 23. The me a engaged on the Harbor Board dredger have " struck oil "at the break* y^ater. While dredging .nqai; ithf 'oattle wharf 00 Saturday the Prieatman's bucket brought np sand that had been caked together by oil oozing through. The stufi when brought up floated m the water In a rich yellow m^BB, and gave forth a very strong smell of petroleum. The aand is no hard on the bottom through the aotlon of tha oil that the men were compelled to be very careful m letting down, the buckets. It is considered that the driving of the piles f or the wbarveb pom©time ago disturbed tha oil deposits.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2312, 23 December 1889, Page 2
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119TODAY'S TELEGRAMS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2312, 23 December 1889, Page 2
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