We hear, says a Napier contemporary, that Messrs. Watt Brothers’ brigantine, the Augusta, was seen oif. Cape Palliser by the Luna on Thursday last. She brings a cargo of Greymouth coal to Napier, being the first that has ever arrived here. It is safe to predict that the time is not far distant when the coalmines on the West* Coast of the Middle Island will altogether supersede the sister colonies, so far as New Zealand consumption is concerned, and will enter into competition with them for the supply of that of the Southern hemisphere. If it is proved that there is a good demand for the Greymouth coal, the Augusta will he regularly laid on in this trade. , The arrival of a steam-threshing machine in the Patea district is recorded.,,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4411, 10 May 1875, Page 5
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