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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3048, 28 January 1892, Page 2

A choice lot of game fowls will be offered at the Hamilton Auction Mart ou Saturday. Messrs Bradley and Co., Te Aroha, advertise for a bay gelding, lost about three months ago. Mr Henry Buttle, land agent, Ohaupo, has a commodious family residence for sale at Cambridge. tloO will purchase a valuable allotment in Raglan. See Mr T. B. Hill's advertisement in this issue. So delicious ! Such a luxury ! Quito a tieat! Yet so cheap ! Arthur Nathan's Teas. 117

One of, if not the chief drawbacks of the great Australian continent has been the want of water. Given that, the principal anxiety of the Hockma-tor would be for ever removed. Stock can live, and do tolerably well, for long spells with very little feed, but they must have water, and the surface accumulations, however carefully stored, soon disappear under tho inttuence of hot winds and a scorching Australian sun. Klt'urfci have been made by station-owners to tap a subterranean supply by boring, and in many cases they have been successful. What is considered to be the largest supply yet obtained from a bore was tupped recently on the Lissington Station, near Bourke, New South Wales. The water was tapped at a depth >f 1070 feet, when the working was in si.v-ineli tubing. The rush witli which the water lame was so great that a line of wooden poles, over 100 feet, was forced up against the derrick head and smashed. A sinker (LBcwt), which was at the bottom, was thrown ciean out of the bore, and fell on to one side. A shower of giavel and stones was also thrown up. The wa'er shot mi fully L'O feet above the de.irick, which is tiO feet high. It his now s■> tied down to eicht feet above the mouth of the tubing. Tbody of water has been so ereat that it ha", not Wn ii.-isililn t> Gruasre the flow, but experienced borers estimi'e that it cannot be less than five or six million gallons c aily.