AN ILL WIND, ETC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 351, 31 March 1910, Page 2

AN ILL WIND, ETC.

»THE NEW VICTORIAN COALFIELD. i / EFFECT ON NEWCASTLE. ' "There is some soul of goodness in ■things evil," we are told on very high authority, and the Victorian Government, when the New South Wales coal miners' strike was brought about, set to work in the most determined fashion to "observingly distil it out.' In this endeavor the Fates were kind to the railway and to manufacturers who jire a aWs&Jhm»; foY««W veinment geological party were boring for] water to at fiape Patterson tney'struck a coal seam fjjjft thick%tapta #wswHOTro from the surface. Bore after bore probed .; the Hsflaft, -Jalicßstone' && foSditfiha,' and there was coal everywhere. To *2ajke assw«£c^M^sul¥3ouf?lJiafts

were put dawn, and seams of i uch a prom : mSffl jwas eterted>ltf^r^,T<fas«#<^4w» ffowlet coaJfield^ts%«aWstHe)im^ctivity ap jan "T&ailway Commissioners—calculate that , by 'using ' per! annum, wilHßr&ftii £»8#)0w&il^«Bj from freight, and w3bflSmjp!&l#uieatfSn £7|s,<J^sfi-o»<!#ftfbe^rldW^xtif3Rße« To] these increased atesffiings' gnisjt be addett | f aWelopmiht ~ sures Victoria will be less djppftijtefit on ! NeWcagtfef, Wt *heWi«en*tw(r»ifcßßt yujft j aidp supply will be better appreciated I whten it'iß?reßremtoedltl^tifhtS'rtwW>ietTof ithf coal raised in Victaiia in .1908 was 4 £f4 5 8S»;iiag3insli^7£7*3>63tbiJMt»ini?f?JfeNf Another connected V»iih the opening up -«i~ this new field Lander such the laacjt ttatfefCffi^iDnMlgai®'Victoria has ■f Jwi heen encouraging to investors. The onw two of which show considerable

outputs—one of 58l!fe6S"'%ih8 and the ottier of 47,633 tons—for-1908. In 1903 tatjre wis yair, and waa so disastrous to miners and mines that no JiMSfds have been „ ifjwt five /ears, and oily about one-third the number, of men h&va beenj#mploy^4 7 "ififl}e tie strike aalhere'lviwre beta* iPl 3, *™&w®&£k Q f 7 -f I'lew miles south of the uippsland pits, -boiiferous **" "*1 ooa|l seams intnis part oi toe tsomhern ; ■ MA %RJSPmSS^.^f^S[ tbijian piona to talce stef's for" tfie' exploitation Jot jthe deposits-at.Cape Patterson, but; v&ihout auccess." As k to make up Tor past ia 9m , the Powlett coalfield 3 h,as been hustled |-j alajng i American than an Australian claracter- .; Jatic. I s.gflntbe fjto 'mine basnet gra^g^r^^

I iMfgMfe ft>|tjMg§t.a it l wallow hole that had beenJijra^edJ^jj I the MuftiUft „J ' •half to explore the workings siWfdgfoA i " foittf lsff Wf hind'-a -gjMfwiiigf jß^n'v*'»'tovrn / c«H|d!<j»ne,]< -, iett>tnafi»o*^Mo : #2! .mod-^J! ~.«<jn shops, temporary but substantial.* Chiidren>B.«ncftnSStrajßgprpto ths-field^j-pumped fronva:i oi-a,, wile- away .- < is now. bfougWr to, tthe, -fcown. 'by ,pipes, , » and thw fl dp\fßa-s>cf/t;ng.t:water 7 . in it-telephone bell . tinkles,,in oAicej.andj i| a telegjrwpH completes the contact with the surrounding world.

On the dav after that notice was written the first' tr'aifi bMfed Mnt!b the Powlett State coal mine siding, and was loaded with over'TOO tons frem"the' 10,000 v t6n* at grais.r" that statement means itis'hece'ssa'ry to chronicle the 'iact IKa'f'the* -main <slppsland line is thirty miles distant from'Powlett. The branch line from' Nyora, on the main line to Woollami (seventeen miles) was begun two years ago, but not a plate was laid - three months before the first toal train got through. Last Christmas the Newcastle strike and the Powlett

discoveries galvanised the railway authorities into unwonted activity. It was a neck-and-neck race between the mine and the railway. The management undertook to have 10,000 tons of coal on the surface before the railway was completed; the railway people vowed the rail-head would be at the pit before the stipulated quantity was raised. The mine won by a fraction, "but a« the last few tons,' - ' writes the correspondent before quoted, "were coming up, the dust from the railway navvies' picks could be seen rising over the undulating country near the town, and next day the first locomotive drew up near the pit's mouth." Jn nine weeks the thirty mile* of rails were laid, the rate of progress being over one mile per day. It need fcandly be said that nothing like a permanent way was put down at that rate "of jlconstruction.j, Cuttings anl embankments were dispensed with as far ai possible, and itijyviy be another two months before pnijfenger traffic can be allowed; but the Jbjlj&Mlaga has started tnvith 500 to relieve the •tress of short supplies, and this quantity expected to be whjftßß97JsDoo tons at U has been transported to the various! depots. The brWoutl'me of the ' takjen as an object-lesson in favor of tSWte ownership of tn'e meani of prodn4tioii,.uiiattsrnwDu«nk Btm&sk out!) it should #t}fcfr fjprgSWSll that all tbiUurrounding circumstances were eminefrtlv 1 favorable to thd-trmlert&king, and thei area proved to be coal-bearing was tOrcjwn land. Two ~pWfi!te ' of 570 acres were at ,£ls per *4 to permit of laid

streets that are to tree-planted, course, reserves for schools, and a town hall ajUL, -also erect workers' dwellings that will cosi fflSi italdft<«kxue23ft ffrilh;. be jrented ready the abrpad. the Y.M.C.A. tent is erected the Presbyoffering' fl gooa ttccxfnttto<fW<sf par? man ftn| beast." Road?'SPflßs'enf thWe are notfe, .rai],waj;,|he,, jlfiriigier of, Mines covered the distance, bouW bv, motor, in PpESMP 0 The Aw'tlte b%rt ; bf loci to vill be sgreatly iacilitaled l>y ,wharf or SieifMtMMW !«*sx|M» Of "deveiopyP a!B°te!S» TCfi& degrep. It beaping area extends for three miles in one direction by two miles iff 'hfeadthr will be laid on private enfrHßy ft «jßh&f 'fcyTOMe' latf taken! up ftdPea believed to contain splendid Sfep;oeit»«6!"allM*m «At<dßgo6a'i|iu» □lot 1S& 'will be verv gratifying (a* our T tM: Ljroirited State and private enterprise acb'iiiad.: "fjMshe% u 4nm#J«Wif)'if«tul:eMHirbh\sr rprcjqf r*BOttrce»; a SorrifeS pc*; ,$sS thai; awM^pi^^tii.*'miner to TfofctftinWffflJ&ctfv&'w .tiTJWi « ■•'■' H jjaij-wra .wuboiq VnU ~v JECZEMA CURED IN LESS*TEEAN' ! 'K' ■j •.> Meek/' *'"" ' ' ",.

' :\'PKQQE33£IIIYE-4XNEWTO WN ' 'People need not ,A<*f!«3r'if/dt4a^S l r tfty/yhsi* Mrs. Jane Robinson, of 3, .Cojuimodore-s'treet, ■Newtown; inspect ;tc her ease. This lady removed a patch of Eczema foot yeA-rs"!ol(i by mea'tis">lclU one week's'treatment with 'Rerxona. "Rexona Ointment removed a pa/tch! of Eczema from my lace in less than a week in a manner that was positively startling. This'^a&l a ' 6¥ f l&>!ema vv.-ta very uns'igfctly, and really 1 was ashamed to go out of the house. This Eczema had been on my face for about f our; < years * when I started to use the Rexona. I had tried all sorts of omt-1 ments and other remedies, but all without any effect at all. After a few applications of Rexona, however, the irri tation was much decreased and the Eczema scabs began to come off, leaving I new 3kin underneath. The improvement kept up day by day till all the s'cabs were gone and a perfect new skin appeared where the disfiguring Kczema formerly Avas. The wonderfully speedy cure Rexona Ointment effected has astonished and delighted me." Rexona, the new skin remedy, lis sold only in triangular pots at Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at Bullock and Johnston's, agents, Devon street, Xew Plymouth. At The Kash they are selling their oelebmted Prestwclf suits at 255--! ho best value that has ever been offered in Taranaki. Drop in and spc thcrn; hig range to choose from. Striped denims. 4s 3d; woollen ho*:, thret jwn-s 2s 6d; Englisu w«'.v.'.«d trousers, bs lid. -Advt.