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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3233, 30 June 1879, Page 3

AKi-artjole in the Lyttelton Times, recently gave a good instance of unfairness of representation according to numbers in pointing out that London with a population of four- millions has only sixteen representatives, yet Scotland with three millions of population had fiftythree members. In New Zealand, with Seats on a population basis, the four largest towns would have more than onefourth of its total representation of the colony.

Iw a San Francisco journal I observe that " the deepest mine in the world now worked is said to be the Adalbert lead and silver mine in Austria, which is 3,230 feet deep. The next is the Viviers coal mine in Belgium, 2,847 feet. It - was sunk to the depth of 3586 feet, but. no coal having l)eipn foaridj the, Vf orking r is .at, the former level?' The deepest coal mines in England are the Dunkirk colliery in Lancashire, 2824 feet, and the Rose bridge in the j lame 2458 feet. The deepest mine in this country (California} is the;? Yellow Jacket of the . Coins took Lode, i'ltis n0w"2,500 feet below the surface at, the mouth of. the main shaft, and 2933 feet b*elow the Gould and Curry croppings/""'To this I may add, by way of the supplement,, that the shaft of the Magdala mine at Stawell, in this colony, is downyai^ feet, equal to 1300 feet below'the' sea level in Hobson's Bay,— .r.'-ry.-:--'. <: ■■•■ ■■•:■'■;•■ ' ■*■'.';