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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 272, 12 March 1889, Page 3

Hot minv ratepayers are aware that the boring machinery for the artesian well is now located next to Mr Brassey's residence and that the work ia going oh steadily. A visit to the work would be interesting to those who have not previ inaly witnessed anythin o of the kind. The contractor has ear mewhat heder ta*k than the Individual referred to in the following extract from h n English paper S*s It will scarcely be credited that in thh mgtt^r-of fset age the use of thedivining rod for the recovery of water h*s found bulieven in England, John Mullins, the water wig rd. has, it is reported, worked wonders in thii direction. He has been employed by aomt of the London local authorities, by certait noblemen and clergymen, and ye-y lately by th* Hastings Board of Guardians It smacks of mediaeval times to read of a man gravely walking over the ground with a forked hazel twig in his hand, and the wand being mysteriously disturbed gt certain pointsnf his progress. The '.Ldowser, 11 as Mullins ia called, promises an abundant aupp’y of water at Hastings. When prospecting, too. he charges nothing unless water is found. If the virtues of the divining rod in the hands of the wizard are as represented,- what visions of plentiful supplies of the liquid element should float be fore the eves of the dwells a in the parched and dronght.slrioken regions of Australia 1 Let the squatters and firmer* of the colonies at once secure th* 'services of J.ihu Mullin*, and from the occult s mrce with which this gifted man ia endowed, sink wells, and obtain water wherever desired. Thera need be no future trouble in this respect, and what can ba more convincing as to the integrity and ability nf Mullins than that English engineers, experienced in wate,works, hear witness to the aenuracy of results accomplished by thia man? To he sure, faraday and other scientists have laughed at the power of the divining rod, placing it in the same category as table-turning and spirit-rapping, but then they era altogether prejudiced people, and. probably are ignorant of what they ars talk* log,