180 (OALKIKLDS AM) COLLIiaUES OF AUSTRALIA. 



The Austinniere and Bulli Pass Collieries. 



These collieries are leased to the Southern Coal Miners* 

 Association, who allow them to remain idle. They are both 

 small locked in areas. Formerly so-called natural coke was 

 supplied to the Sydney steam trams from the Bulli Pass mine. 

 The Austinmere Colliery was worked years ago, and turned out 

 a failure. 



The Bulli Colliery. 



The Bulli Colliery is about eight miles from Wollongong r 

 in a northerly direction, and H miles from the Bulli 



Fig. 113. Coke being pushed out of Oven. 



jetty. 



trolled by Mr. (leo. Adams. 



It belongs to the Bulli Coal Co. Ltd., and is con- 

 The mine was commenced to be 

 opened out in 1868. It is worked from tunnels, but like 

 its neighbours it also has an air shaft. 



Mention of the Bulli Colliery brings to the mind of the 

 public the greatest colliery disaster that has ever taken place 

 in Australia, bar one, viz., the Mount Kembla explosion, that 

 took place 15 years later. About half-past two in the after- 

 noon of 23rd March, 1887, an explosion took place, followed! 

 a few seconds later bv a second one of less intensity. These 

 resulted in the death of 81 persons. Apparently few if any 



