A Mr Garry, who has had considerable experience in holing artesian veils writes as follows to a Napier eonfempruaiy —“I do not know any town that could he supplied in more abundance, or at a less rate of cost, than Napier; it has an underground liver flowing through a coarse shingle bed, close Under the town, conveniently kept cool, and filtered ready for tapping, with a pressure equal to a tank of water forty feet high on the surface, or nearly I cannot but think that a company might ho formed n ith shares that would pay if the well or wells were put down in a proper place, a ml the number increased, as occasion required it,” Goldsmiths’ Work. —The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by Air. J. W. Benson, of No. 2d, Old Bond-street, and of the City Steam Factory, 58 and GO, Ludgate-bill, London. It is enriched and embellished with designs, by Italian, French and English artistes, of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day, or other presents, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to 11. R.H. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet o-.i the Rise and Progress of Watchmaking. Those pamphlets are sent, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot bston strongly recommended to those contemplating a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require, an (I have i‘ or warded in perfect safety.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 621, 13 March 1874, Page 2
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