GREYMOUTH COAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2471, 18 February 1881, Page 2

GREYMOUTH COAL.

[TO TUB EDITOR]

Silt, —In your issue of the 7th inst. there appeared a letter, signed by the local agent of one of our coal mines, severely detracting from the quality of the Coal Pit Heath Company’s coal.

I purpose adopting what appears to my mind the most practical method of replying to the Writer of this letter by stating, for the information of the public of Timaru who are supporting our native industry by using Greymouth coal instead of the imported article, that Mr William Evans, the well-known grain merchant, is our authorised agent, and that he has recently been supplied with a cargo of the Company’s coal for sale in your market, the quality of which I intend shall be allowed to speak for itself.

The Company has now been in operation about four years, and has shipped coal into every market and gasworks in the colony, not excepting your own, where it it has always been favorably received.

In testimony of the gas producing properties of the Company’s coal, I can confidently refer to the manager of your local gasworks. The report he gave me of the last cargo received by him from our mine in September, 1880, per schooner Mary Ogilvie, was to the eifect that the quality of the coal could not be excelled. For household purposes, the coal will be found all that could be desired by the most fastidious cou-

sumer. Finally, it is nut my intention t>> enter into a controversy with the agent of another mine as to which Greymbuth coal is the best. All I have to say on the subject is that it is the intention of the company to keep the market regularly supplied with the coal we produce, at the lowest remunerative price. The Company obtained, at the Sydney Exhibition, the highest award, viz. : First degree of merit and medal. —I auij&c.,, RICHARD NANCARROW, Secretary to the Coal Pit Heath Coal Mining Company,

Limited. Greymonth, Feb. 14,-1881