thnir rfepor tetfjn Jhe Queanbcya/i 4ge :< — Mr .Joseph Kay e's : . Well-known horae OlqiPJ^|o|f_|a. ( pjed l pn the 3rd just., at the remarkable age ofr 58 n years. •Whfitfi tbebold toan reached his 51st year we chronicled the fact, .atid, gave reliable data con&rmatory of Hia alleged antiqnity, which was easily computed — ?. 2-_i__v •rjLrwiv.'.r . ■'ii *W. - - his three* 4 owpers 'having thepi respectively kept him for 17 years, and his lasfi ownecmowfor 19 years, making his age&tttie time of his death, 53 years. OIJrPJ?Va^& y»ae ; able, to do a day's woss,gg|r jthW' op to .witbin a short of hie decease] The sevemyrti the present winter w,aߣ however, ieoirauc-h tfbr him,' and, -4$ thaagbbft'Was nursed and fed with the ntmost care, be 1 "died, almost while in ■the act of eating a warjm -masn. Old Parramatta was the most aged horse of which we have any reliable, record. The "Loafer in the Street*' writes in Jlttetf^GaSte^Hnry Press npon coal &Wm£LMs? -VoUawing 1 . strain :-- 0°a fil 8 prPJWJly.oue.of the most distin* gos-bed minerals in the eer th beneath ne. -^La-eeojonotion (occasionally) witb s^WP/Pi&P <rja{gbaae it here/at about three pqisnj|s/,,ajtoTi. ; In bags yba 'dan get it at aay 3a 6dj which is more exp^sijHL,,- T^je musical cry of the vendorsV^wjever, is given in, and that's wc ftJlfS cfß9? ethiD .g; besides they may give yoa over a cwt. This seldom occors. In considering the question of the price of goals" ob the broadest of basiaes, I should say getting overweight from a coefl-^ia'wFltef'' 'was not to be reckoned on with* £py degree of certainty. There has beeo ; a'feeliog here for many years tbat we sbduld snpply oor own coals to oorselves. lam not aware when tbis feeling^'first , came fcrf be, felt, bnt I should judge the pre-bistoric moa banters most haver felt: longings to develop the weUlkirioWn mineral wealth whichjiiJ scattered: in such a profuse.' style all, over this island. : The ovens wooldjl|a^ej^oaßje4 the mpaa in a more genaioe tpaqn^er .perhaps had coal been attainable. Perhaps since yon've been engineering; ypnr admirable journal you ma *'iiSy e t i h M^ d lDat coal exists in aB IH»B^U«a about the . province, perhaps yon, jinj»£ j to^e hgar.4 v .once and again of the discovery of "a NEW SEAM. It belongs, to the character of tbe people of this province to be continually ftndipg spams of coal, and in .meat^csses:; neglecting to develop them. We can't help finding them. Judging .f&tWJrhttl I've heard bn the sobjeol, I shonld say a blind man with •^ls!ff_W»C-C e . e^'? on W idiscojer a series of coal mines in a week's trip. Tfa rsi 1 S o hi%y«^ 1 P^ m e D t Ariaep.lrom-a va^X^TKki k fSf99!9i. *P° numerous toj me 9M°& ? n-V!-^ 80 brought a iot oi coals to grajßi^ndJelt pleased. .It cam j oa 'vfßTiiiWg'"*" &e night, and hex! m °m_\^ e Mi' aU B QDe ' Th if class of mineral is (too fragile for generrfl remefK when his coal suffered io seTer'ely'Troni Vxpbsare. I like boating of new coal discoveries, because BL feel r tfil^ti^&cleh^btß of the neli genetttrfuity" p'dssibly utilise' theoi and it » jnst probable they may requir* I shall go on heanng_-or new seams,' because attyiqjialriial wfiieV failed to BQnoado«j^fre«lt discovery every month
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 324, 2 October 1874, Page 4
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