NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By "TelecraDh.—Press Association.! ;OIL-BORINC. OPERATIONS AT GISBORNE. A Clsborne, April S. , '' At a meeting of shareholders in th<j Gisborne Oil Company, it was reported that the directors had had difficulty . in securing the necessary 9 aiid 7-irich : piping to get the present tore down to 2000 feet. The directors recommended that in the meantime the machinery.be shifted and an attempt be made to secure a, shallow well at an adjacent site. In the present bore oil .was struck at Coo feet. A resolution was passed that the directors be empowered. ti> put dowa -, a further bore in the anticline as defined by Dr. Bell- near the seepage, and that necessary steps be. taken to pro-' ■ enre the additional piping required to . put down a deep' well at the ■ present- * site. ! FIRE AT NELSON. Nelson, April 5. Shortly after 3 o'clock this morninj} a two-storied seven-roomed house in Vanguard Street, owned by William Childs, and occupied by . William Stan' - . ley, soapmaker,. was gutted by which started presumably from the ex* plosion of a kerosene lamp which had been left burning. \ Very little waa saved, bnt the surrounding bufldinjjs were not damaged. The family, whicfc \ had been absent camping, returned only . yesterday. The insurances are:—Honsa, £100 in the New Zealand Office; furniture, and effects, £340' in the State Office .(including £90 on manufactured soap).. .

THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Invercargill, April 5. As. the, result of a protest on behalf' of local mercantile firms, the Telephone Department lias agreed to continue the daily posting of debit notices for bureau, connections oh payment of a nominal fee of one penny per diem. The decision' Has been accepted with satisfaction., by business' - firms, who thought that" the discontinuance would hare prevented, all check of the use of; tele? phones. . . •■ : ; " " \ LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY. • , Auckland, April i . Frederick Wrigglesworth, aged sixty years, boarding at Ponsonby, shot himself twice with a revolver. Two shots were 'heard,'and Wrigifdesworth was. found in bed with a smoking revolver, in his hand and: one bullet wound in. his left temple, and another in the left breast. There is but little hope; of his recovery. Immediately previous Wriggleswortb appeared in excellent spirits, j. ■ :.. later.:,. Frederick Wigglesworth'died at the; , hospital- this afternoon. '- :

A DISABLED TRAWLER. Napier, April,s. The steam trawler Countess v wasl - towed into port, early, this .morning. . The. cause of her disablement off Wai-. * ro'a was that her net became foul of; - her propeller. She lay.- at anchor' until ■' the steamer Fanny reached her toien,-. der assistance. ■-.-•..'