240 NEW SOUTH WALES. 



At Catlicrine Hill Bay, near Lake Macquarie, the Wallarala Coal 

 Company have a jetty 1,060 feet in length, 30 feet above high-water, 

 with two shoots capable of shipping 1,000 tons in eight hours. 



Cual slilpiied from Newcastle Harhour. 



The quantity of coal shipped in 1895 to foreign and intercolonial 

 ports was 1,920,378 tons, valued at £678,217; and the largest 

 quantity of coal taken by a steamer (May 30, 1895) was 5,235 tons, by 

 the "Port Stephens,^' and by sailing vessel, 4,558 tons, by ship 

 " Eoyal Firth," on June 14, 1895. 



Collieries at WorTi, 8j'c., in the Northern District, viz., Newcastle, Four- 

 7)iile Greek, Maitland, Greta, East Greta, Singleton, Curlewis, 

 and Gunnedah. 



In 1895 there were sixty-nine collieries at work and opening out in 

 the Northern district, which raised 2,631,221 tons of coal, valued at 

 £813,227, and the number of men employed in and about the collieries 

 was 6,777. The Borehole coal seam is the principal one worked 

 at the Newcastle collieries, and it varies from 18 feet to 4 feet 

 2 inches of marketable coal. It is very free from faults, and lies 

 almost horizontal. It is a bright, bituminous, caking coal, of first- 

 class quality for steam, smelting, household, and coking purposes, and' 

 a good gas coal. The cost of hewing it is now 2s. 8d. to 3s. per ton, and 

 the supposed selling price 7s. per ton delivered on board vessels at 

 Newcastle Harbour. The cost of hewing the Burwood coal seam, 

 proved to be the next best in quality at and near Newcastle, is 2s. 7d. 

 per ton, and the selling price is about Is. less than the Borehole coal. 

 The cost of hewing the Greta coal, situated 35 miles by rail north-west 

 of Newcastle, is about 2s. per ton. 



The Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company has the Government railway 

 contract for furnaces at Eveleigh, at 6s. 6d. per ton ; the New Anvil 

 Creek Coal Company has the Murrurundi district contract, at 5s. 4d. ; 

 the East Greta Coal-mining Company has the Newcastle and Singleton 

 district, at 5s. 6d. per ton; the Centenary Coal Company the Werris 

 Creek, Narrabri, and Armidale district, at 8s. ; and Green and Curley, 

 of Gunnedah, have also the latter contract at 7s. 9d. per ton — this 

 colliery being situated 294 miles from Sydney. 



niawarra District, and its Facilities for Shipment of Coal. 



The Wollongong Harbour and Basin is situated 45 miles south of 

 Sydney Harbour, and at low tide there is a depth of 13 feet of water 

 at its entrance and alongside the wharf, where there are three cranes 

 capable of shipping 1,800 tons of coal per hour. The Belmore Basin 

 has a depth of 17 feet of water at its eastern side, where there are four 

 shoots, each capable of shipping 100 tons per hour; but as only two 

 vessels can load there at the same time the largest quantity of coal 

 shipped by them is 200 tons per hour, or 2,000 tons per day. The 

 largest steamship which has coaled at the harbour drew about 15^ feet 

 of water, and carried about 900 tons of coal ; and the largest sailing 

 vessel has taken away about 700 tons of coal. 



