Till', tin!; .steamer l'etroh;a recently arrived in tho Ty;,e from Liban, with L'SO.OOOgillons r.'iiii'.'d itussian petroleum. This is from Messrs Noble's -reliueries, l!akn, the "region of eternal fire." The Droojba !•'rum tain sends up a column of -_'O0 to :',OO fe-'t 11ih, ISin in diameter, and forces the nil out of the earth at tho rale of gallons evi ry it hours, beinf,' nearly equal to the output of all !!>•.• 'JO.O'iO wells in the oil fields of the United States. \Vir::N does a sun not take after his father? — When his father loaves him nothing to take.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2447, 17 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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97Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2447, 17 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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