NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2164, 24 February 1880, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee “Times” Special Wire.] Golden Oil for Gisborne. Gisborne, Feb. 24. —There is considerable excitement about the oil springs A member of the Jinn of Clarke Bros., of Melbourne, and Fleming, representing Canada at the Melbourne Exhibition, an oil expert, have visited the springs. Fleming says the indications are equal to anything in America. It is believed that probably a company with a capital of £OO,OOO will he floated to work the oil and Operations will immediately be commenced. The Native Disturbances Denied. Napier, Feb. 24. —Mills, who on Saturday evening arrived in town and gave a sensational account to the police, about natives shooting sheep on Moorliouso’s run, was never in the employer's house, and no station hands have left. Mills appears to have repealed a bogus report, as no reliable information lias been received here of any serious disturbance. The Convict Scare. The New South Wales and Queensland Government unite with ours in protest-

ing against the importali m of French convicts. The three Agentj-general will make a renmn drancc. A Ship on Fire. Dunedin, Feb, 24. —At ten last night a fire was discovered on board the Marlborough, lying alongide the railway pier at Port Chalmers. Four bales of wool in the hold had taken lire. The bales were promptly removed. ' The lire is attributed to carelessness in usinglights in the hold.