Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1106, 26 July 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1882.

Mr D. Malcolm Orr’s new advertisement Will appear in our issue to-morrow. Mr P. H. Bourke advertises that he has for tale a quantity of totara posts of various lengths. A two-storied building is in course of erection ie yard at the rear of the Government Buildings, and is to be utilised es a lunatfo ward. It will be built of brick and cement, bnd provided with strong iron doors. Mr C. D. Berry ie the contractor. The return Juvenile Football Match which Wae to have been played on Saturday next, we learn, been postponed until the followIng Saturday. Wo hope the youngsters Mil! lave fine weather and an exciting game. The “ Herald ” says our statement regarding the progress of the Harbour Bill is “ mistiding. Well, if the “ Herald ” says so. it ITVST be true 1 Certainly that invaluable old >rgan has cause to doubt us, for, if memory lerves us correctly, w've misled them before!! ! We have another man or two from Alexandria iO spare, and a pup, all of which they can lave of Me same price as before I The Southern Cross Petroleum Company tare received to-day the following report rom the Engineer, Mr G. W. Hilton, lated _lBth inst., “at 10 a.m., this day a >low up ensued in No. 2 pipe throwing debris rom some 30 feet up shaft, and extinguishDg Davy lamps. The water intermingled nth oil and “ very beady ” indications imtrove as sinking progresses. Strong ebulliion continues in No. 2 pipe, gas issuing in quantity. The fan answers well, forcing the ocumulated gas out of shaft at present depth.” Cho depth attained is said to be 96 feet.