WATER SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 632, 20 January 1872, Page 2

WATER SUPPLY.

We mentioned yesterday that energetic measures were being taken in the hope of procuring the supply of water for which so many of our fellow-citizens are at present thirsting. No doubt the matter ought to have been attended to long ago, but we must give the authorities credit for having at length awakened to the urgency of the poiition. Both the Provincial Government and the Borough Council are working in earnest and in unison in the endeavour to obtain a supply. In the centre of the great basin of the Upper Domain, a tube well was sunk yesterday afternoon to a considerable depth. At a very few feet from the surface some muddy water oozed up from a peaty bed underlying the super-stratum of disintegrated lava. As of course there was no likelihood of obtaining a sufficient supply from this, the tube was pushed down to a depth of about 30 feet. Unfortunately, however, this morning, from unforeseen circumstances, the work had to be suspended. But Mr Allwright, the Provincial Engineer, informs us that it is intended to resume labor this afternoon, and is sanguine of achieving a success as soon as he reaches the old surface over which the streams of molten rock flowed from Mount Eden.

"We are sorry to say there is a difficulty in the way of obtaining water from Seccombe's springs. It seems that the quantity of pipes on hand is utterly insufficient, and in consequence it would be necessary to cut a kind of canal at a vast expense.

However, it will be satisfactory to know that a deputation from the Board are this afternoonaboutto visit thelocality, with the view]of ascertaining how the difficulty can be got over. It is to be feared that it will be found insurmountable as providing an immediate remedy,and that our only hope at present is in tapping the springs under the Domain.