Original Correspondence.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 423, 4 May 1850, Page 3

Original Correspondence.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir— The subject of the Coal pioductions of New Zealand having for some time occupied the attention of the inhabitants of Auckland, the following statistics may be of some interest to your subscribers. The information is curious, and maybe relied upon, having been extracted from a Review of Richard Cowling Taylors Staiiafcs of Coal. Superficial Coal areas of Production in the priitvarious countries. cipal coal producing countries. sa. hues. toks. United Sts. of America "| Anthracite 2,650,000 Bituminous coal area 133,132 I Bituminousl, 7so,o36 Pcnsylvania f — — — Anthracite 437 J 4,400,000 British America .... Bituminous coal .. 18,O0O» Great Britain "1 Bituminous coal .. 8,139 I _. 0 Great Britain & Ireland f 3 ' > 500 > 000 Anthracite andCuhnf 3,720 J Spain 3,408 France 1,719 4,141,617 Belgium 518 4,900,077 Prussia .. [not given in the book quoted]... 3,500,000 Austria ditto 700,000 I enclose you a return of the places to which coal was exported from Great Britain in 1811, with the quantity exported to each place ; this return is extracted from Spackman's Statistical Tables, from which work I have taken the information as to the quantity of coals exported from Britain to the North American co« nies. TONS. TON». Russia 75,593 Western Coast of Sweeden 2G,70t Africa 2,440 N orW ay 15,207 CapcofGoodllope 5,588 Denmark 148,724 Mauritius 3,G70 Prussia. 115,501 East Indies and Germany 169,695 China 63,698 Holland 171,242 Australian SettleBelgium 3,013 ments 4,226 France 450,410 Nuv Zealand.... 509 Portugal, Azores, British and North and Madeira., 28,977 American Cols. 54,592 Spain and the Ca- British West Innaries 34,786 dies 71,298 Gibraltar 14,082 Foreign 22,292 Italy 38,887 United States of Malta 50,131 America 52,207 lonian Islands... 3,664 Texas 112 KingdomofGreece 5,927 Brazil 14,166 Turkey 48,059 States of the Rio Syria & Palestine 60 <le la Plata.. .. 4,034 Egypt 21,222 Chili 4,575 Tripoli/funU, Al- Peru 2,288 giers and Mo- Guernsey, Jersey, rocco 26,413 Alderney&Man 78,564 Cindors., 16,514.— Cu1m.. 216. Yours, Src, P. Q. * The coal fields of Nova Scotia cover an area three times the size of Wales, but being monopolized by a Mimug Company, public energy ii destroyed; and, m IS}], there were 54,592 tons imported into the British American colonies from England. + So umall it the quantity of Anthracite used in England that of 2,273,200 tons of coal imported into London in 1842 only 1,280 >ere from Wales, in the shapu of culm or small anthracite.