The enormous fortunes which are being made by the British coal ow; ers, puts Australian and New Zealand gold mineß into the shade. One owner, who sunk a large sum in an unproductive coalpit one year, made L 60.000 profit from another pit. Another very large owner, a year or so ago, made L 50.000 beyond his ordinary income of LIOO.OOO, An enterprising man with a small capital lately invested it, and what money he could borrow, 19000 in all, in a colliery, and he sold it again almost immediately, «nd without spending a penny on It, for
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Kumara Times, Issue 1075, 11 March 1880, Page 4
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