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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 142, 16 June 1874, Page 2

We G. li. Argus learn tbat the lease of the Brunner Coal-mine changed hands yesterday, a Greymouth Company having purchased tlie lease, rolling stock, and plant. :The capital of tho Company is £20,000, is 4000 shares of £5 eacb, half paid up. All arrangements have been concluded, and the Directors of the new Company are:— Messrs Martin Kennedy, F. Hamilton, J. Hamilton, Donald Macleau, and Hamilton Gilmer The Company has also purchased the prospecting license of Messrs Hughes and McCarthy at Mount Rochfort. I The Greymouth Star says : — "Through the courtesy of Inspector Hickson we are put in possession of the following statistics: — The town of Greymouth, with an estimated population of 2,590 has 49 public-houses, one for every 53. The district has 14 public-bouses to 620 people, or one to every 44 Maori Gully, with its population of 495, has 12 public-houses, one for every 41, while the Clifton district has 19 licensed houses for a population of 610 souls, or one public-house for every 38. How the publicans manage to exist and pay their licenses is a mystery, allowing for women and tbe publicans themselves we should imagine that every man in the various districts would require to spend half-a-crown per day to support these houses."