NELSON COAL MINES.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 3 June 1869, Page 2

NELSON COAL MINES.

The following resolutions were adopted by the Nelson Provincial Council on Thursday last : — , , 1. That this Council request his Honor the Superintendent to ascertain the cost of a detailed survey for a line of railway from the Brunner coal mine to Cobden, and if the cost of such will not exceed the sum alluded to in the report of the Select Committee on the Coal Fields, that such survey shoiild be executed. 2. That as additional inducement to any company to construct a line of railway from the Brunner 'coal mine to Cobden, the Council authorises the Superintendent to issue to such company, byway of bonus and upon completion of the railway, scrip available for the purchase of the waste lands of the province, to the amount of L 3500, or at the rate of LSOO worth for each mile of railway. 3. That for the purpose of offering.encouragement to persons, proposing to work the coal seams in the neighborhood of the Buller, the Superintendent be authorised to pay a bonus, at the rate of 5s per ton on good steam coal raised and brought'into the market from any proper mine,' and one calculated to be of a permanent character; provided always that no such bonus shall exceed the sum of LSOO in any one year. • . - 4. That his Honor the Superintendent be respectfully requested to amend the" Appropriation Act, by the addition of the sum of L2OO, for the purpose of repairing and completing the road between the roadstead at Pakawau and West Wanganui. '■ 5. That the time for claiming the bonus recommended in the report of the Select Committee on the Buller and other coal fields, adopted by the Council on the 25th of July, 1867.* authorising the Superintendent to pay a bonus of 5s per ton on good steam coal raised from any proper; mine on this side of Cape Farewell, be extended to the Ist of January, 1871 ; and that, to encourage the efforts of the Co-operative Coal Company established in Golden Bay for the purpose of constructing a tramway and opening up the coal, seams at the Aorere, the Superintendent be authorised to advance, in anticipation of the bonus, the sum of L 250 when the company are able to show an expenditure in works of a substantial character of not less than LIOOO ; the repayment of the L 250, or any portion of it which the company may be unable to claim as bonris from not having raised the necessary quantity of coal, to be secured on such works in any way the Superintendent and his, Executive may deem necessary.