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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 7

3lr. J. D. Henry, the well-known oil expert,. is shortly expected to visit the Poverty Bay district to inspect possible oil measures.

Tenders arc to be called from local firms for a motor-car for the use of the city engineer. >

A combined waiting-shed and shelter for expressmen is to be erected in the Post Office Square at an estimated cost of The city, engineer was authorised last evening io' proceed with the work.

The Prime Minister said last night at Stratford that the total deposits in the banks of the Dominion, including those in the public and private savings banks, amounted to upwards of forty millions sterling.

The Hon. D. Buddo has been informed' that a private party has left a place ,on the Trunk line north' of Taihape to cross the Ruahine Ranges and travel over the.country to Wanganui. A member of the party lias informed him that a lookout will bo kept for huia birds, and that if any are see'n the locality will be noted, and the fact will be reported to. him. Jlr.. J. Stevens, of Bulls, who recently undertook a fruitless search for these birds., intends to moke another attempt to capture some for tho;bird sanctuaries.

A hint that it may be actually possible' in the near future to telegraph to the South Pole was one of the features of Dr. Mavrson's Antarctic lecture at tho Science Congress. Reminding his audience of certain facts about that region, Which are not generally known, he drew attention ti the circumstance that tho coast of Antarctica lies nearer to Hobart than docs .Melbourne to Perth. "Indeed,", said he, "it is within telegraphic range of the newwireless station at the Bluff—iu fact, tho radius extends even to here," and he pointed on the map to tho Pole itself, amid:applause. "In summer time navigation is no more hindered than along a great portion of the coast, of Alaska. Tho Antarctic constitutes the highest and largest plateau in the world. It is tho only almost germ-free continent left. Its scenery, contrasting absolutely with that common to Australia, and its never-to-be-forgotten invigorating atmosphere, determine for it, indisputably, the location of the future premier sanatorium of this portion of the globe."

Tho City Council last evening accepted a recommendation of its Outlying Districts Committee, that negotiations be entered into with the Government with a view of getting the necessary surveys made to determine the position of the public roads in the Vogeltown district. Councillor Jforrah (chairman of the committee) explnineil that some of tho "public roads" mentioned were enclosed in the back yards of residences. Others ' were several chains out opposition. The Government had been asked on former occasions to resurvey the street lines, but InVd always refused.

. The patronage of the City Council is to be given fo the garden party to be given at Jlr. Keene's grounds Island Bay, on Saturday, February il, in aid of the Tramways Band.