NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 102, 24 August 1896, Page 2

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] Napier, August 22. I'esterday evening here proved an excellent one for viewing the partial eclipse of the moon. When the moon rose the evening was very clear and the shadow could be plainly seen creeping across the face of the " pale Goddess of the night" till at about half past six she was nearly hidden by it. The shadow then slowly disappeared, and at eight o'clock the night was again brilliant with moonlight. The football match on the Eec. on Saturday afternoon was one of the best of the season, and some really good* work was put in, so much so that the Selection Committee for the game with Wellington will have some difficulty in bringing together the fifteen players, so many backs deserving a place in the representative match. Yesterday afternoon the Garrison Band gave a sacred concert on the Glasgow wharf, a collection being taken | up in aid of the Hospital. The items j were well rendered and much appreciated by the promenaders who enjoyed' a breezy walk and the music at the same time. Coppers were prominent in the collection baskets. The company who have promoted the oil boring at Moturoa, Taranaki, have been most unfortunate. Just as they have, after many failures, struck what would seem to be a permanent yield of oil comes an explosion and their plant is nearly ali distroyed. It is to be hoped that the fire will be got under soon, and a rich return of oil reward the promoters for their perseverance. The finding of a payable flow of oil on the Taranaki oil fields means another great source of wealth added to the Colony's productions. Immense fortunes were made very rapidly during the oil boom in the United States, and though we cannot hop<- i>r(or indeed desire) to see million aires spring up like mushrooms, we mightat least expect that the Moturoa oil wells will add materially to the prosperity of the colony. With a gold boom and an oil boom the outlook is very bright indeed, and New -Zealand should receive a great impetus from the development of her natural resources*