WELLINGTON NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 243, 25 February 1888, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

* . WjstjLlNotox, February 22. Struck Oil. Mn Oonnox, Inspecting Engineer to the Mined .Department, returned from New Plymouth last night, having 1 made a thorough inspection of the locality in which the crude petroleum has been discovered. The oil i<* thick like syrup, mid is bubbling up on the beach close to the breakwater. As the oil is close to tlio sea, Gordon thinks boring would be both difficult and expensive. I 1I 1 he Puhinuhi forest.— Arrest of Two tixiimdiggers. The Chief Surveyor of Auckland wires to the Minister of Lands that Hanger Garsed ha* caused fcho urressfc of two men who lie believes were recently digging gum at l'uhipuhi forest, and who were found to have 8 cwt of that commodity in their possession. Their licenses were for last winter only. The men are to be charged with >«olting lire to tho foicst with the object of getting at the gum. flic JSessiaji Fly Tho "Deep furrow plough ordered from Chri.-stclnti eh for tlicpuipos-e oi a&si&fcing to eiadicato the Hessian tly pest fiom Kangilikei has been sent up to thai District, and Government ha\o arranged with Mr Sicely, surveyor at Marton, to show the bottlers how to burn the stubble and plough it in. It is found that the deep furrow ploughs aio on the way out from London by the ship Pleiades, and an order given to a Chri&tchuich firm for two such implements has accoidingly been countermanded. Police Changes. It i.s probable that detectives of Timaru, Oamaiu, and Wanganui Mill be lcmoved to the larger centres, and that the constables at Auckland, Wellington, and Chmtchorch who ai enow doing deteethe work will go back to street duty in oidor to make room for them. It i»: found that the criminal population in a place like Oamaru, for instance, is so .small that a detective has little work to do. Complaint Against a Mayor. No complaint has been made to the Minister of Justice, as was exjKjctcd, i dative to tho conduct of the Mayor of Goic in snatching the recoid books fiom two fellow Justices of the IViicc v»hcn occupying a seat on the Bench at a recent sitting of tho local Com I. Fergus iufoims me that even if a complaint were made he cannot say how he could interfere, as the Mayor is only a justice by \irlue oi his civic oih'ce. If His Worship were a J.P. appointed by Government the case would, of comae, be quite different.