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[BY TEI.KGHAPH.— OWN COnUKHPONnKNT.] Waioroxgouai, Mouday. Mining matteis are vary dull hero ju<<t now, .viul tlu-ro w little i>iosi»oct of much inmioNfini'iit .is no pro-qiccting ia going on. In tlio Colonist^ owing tv the poor iv,tuin> oltt.iiiied Niiico tao holidays the nun.'tfor has received hwtiuction.s to stop opei.itioiiH for the j>resent. Thig will throw Homo twenty »r thnty miners out of employmoat, In the New Find, the man.igor icports a slight improvement m tho f»wu of tho duvo going uorthwaid in tho low level on No. 2 workings.
It is estimated that there were 200,000 tiamps in Germany Last year. Amkrkuns are beginning to employ the electric light in coal mines. It will supeisujo the dim and dangerous safety lamp. It is expected that next year e\ cry coal mine in Pennsylvania will be " illuminated with the noonday light of the rlectrio arc." Tm: English people now consume the inoiedibte quantity of 1,083,000 tons of sugar a year, equal to 1801b a house, for which the countty pays £30,000,000, or about half the sum spent Annually, at pi eseut prices, upon bread. So fur from tho business of sugar-refining having declined, the nnmbnr of refiner has risen s-uei- IS.jI fiom 2,820 to 4,484, and the quantity lefiuud has risen since 1880 by 100,000 tons.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1962, 3 February 1885, Page 2
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216THE LATEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1962, 3 February 1885, Page 2
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