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number of the inhabitants. The pit is connected with the Great Northern Railway by a 

 private line. Oranges and vines are cultivated in the vicinity of the town, and stone- 

 quarrying and steam-saw-milling are thriving industries. One mile distant is the estate of 

 Messrs. Hrown and Dibbs, on which is situated the colliery village of New Lambton, 

 the seam here being the same as that worked in the adjoining parent township. In the 

 vicinity are the New Lambton Smelting Works, and but a short distance away are the 

 stone-quarries and steam-saw-mill of Jesmond or Dark Creek. 



Of the colliery townships around Newcastle undoubtedly the most important is 

 Wallsend, the scene of the operations of one of the wealthiest coal-mining corporations 

 in Australia the Newcastle and Wallsend Company, whose colliery employs nearly seven 

 hundred men and boys, and whose output is frequently over three thousand tons of coal 

 a day. The seam dips from the outcrop to a depth of about three hundred feet. There 

 are three pits on the estate, but the greater part of the coal is drawn from a tunnel 

 put in at the outcrop. In respect to population Wallsend ranks as more than a mere 

 suburb, three thousand being the estimated number of its inhabitants. It possesses a 

 school of arts and various churches, and property to the ratable value of nearly three 

 hundred thousand pounds per annum. Its importance as a mining-centre may be gauged 

 from the fact that it is ranked in the same class as the largest collieries in England. 



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Adjoining the important coal-mining town of Wallsend is another colliery, Plattsburg, 

 the head-quarters of the Co-operative Colliery, employing nearly five hundred hands This 

 town is also renowned for coke-producing, having a large number of ovens erected for 

 the purpose. The State school here is capable of accommodating eight hundred children, 

 and is considered one of the finest institutions of the kind in the district. Plattsburg 



