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22,863 tons of coal were obtained in Victoria, valued at about ,16,991. In Queensland 

 -the coal resources of which are described by the Rev. Julian E. T-nis<.n-\Yoo<i 

 being enormous the principal mines are situate in \\Yst Moreton District ; on the 

 Darling Downs; at Hurrum, to the north of Maryborough ; at Bowen, Cooktown, and 

 other places. The Government Geologist for the colony speaks in the most enthu- 

 siastic way of the future coal wealth of Queensland. The total yield up to the end 

 of 1889 from Queensland was 1,056,283 tons. The output for the year 1889 was 



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AN OLD-TIME SQUATTER. 



265,507 tons, valued at ,121,118. Tasmania for 1889, yielded 40,300 tons; its total 

 output to the end of the year 1889 being 141,416 tons. Coal has been worked 

 at I ; in oral. Mount Nicholas and Douglas River, in the north-east of the Island ; at 

 Hamilton, in the centre ; at the Mersey, in the north-west ; at Jerusalem ; and at 

 Gardiner's Bay, about fifty miles south of Hobart, where a four-foot seam has been 

 found. In New Zealand coal has been found in the North Island, at the Bay of 

 Islands, near Newcastle, Maramarua Valley, Whangarei. Wuikato ; in the South Island 

 at the Grey River, in the Malvern District, Mount Rochfort, Green Island. Clutha 

 Valley, and in the province of Southland. Other deposits have been found in the 

 ranges of the Cape Colville Peninsula, and near Shakespeare Bay. 



In addition to the minerals already named, several others have been found in the 



