The Southland Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1866.
We learn that the -writer of the Prize Essay has been found, but as the award has not yet been officially declared, we suppress the name of the author. " Live and Let Live " is a gentleman well known in Invercargill, although absent at the present time. The business transacted in the Eesident Magistrate's Court yesterday was confined to the delivery of judgment in the case of Cahill c. Oavanagh, in -which the plaintiff was non-auited, Kith costs. The New Zealand coal is beginning to command attention in other colonies. The following W8 take from the Argus of the 14th June : — With regard to the capabilities of the coal from Wanganui, N.Z., for generating steam, and of which trial was made a few days ago in the Williamstown steamer Kangaroo, it may be stated that the quantity of coal used in the one day's trial was slightly under the usual consumption of Newcastle (N.S.W.) coal in a similar period, fiz., thirty-five hundred weight The engineer of the Kangaroo, however, gives a decided preference to the New Zealand coal.
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Southland Times, Volume vi, Issue 499, 21 June 1866, Page 2
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184The Southland Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1866. Southland Times, Volume vi, Issue 499, 21 June 1866, Page 2
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