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In Victoria at some of the springs accomodation houses have 
been built, so as to allow persons desirous of taking a course of 
these waters the full benefit and comforts of a home. The best 
known springs in Australia as yet found are at Hepburn, Dayles- 
ford, Clifton Ballan, Stratford and Krambuk in Victoria. The 
Queensland springs are situated at Nestles Creek, near the Wild 
and Herbert Rivers (Innot Hot Springs) Tinana, Barcaldine, 
Eagle Farm, and other districts, some of which are highly spoken of. © 
Rock Flat and Cooma Mineral Springs. 
The waters from the Ballinore Artesian Spring and the Cooma 
Natural Spring have a pleasant taste, and are strongly effervescent 
due to the large amount of carbonic acid gas present. In taste 
they resemble somewhat that of Seltzer-water. They may be de- 
scribed as carbonated mineral waters, and when put up into proper 
bottles or stored in block tin syphon drums, should command a 
ready sale as table waters. The spring at Cooma is held under 
a lease by the Government to the Australian Natural Mineral 
Water Company, at an annual rental of £20, and the water is 
retailed by the drum or per glass. 
In a small book entitled ‘“‘The Mineral Springs of Australia ” 
by Mr. Ludwig Bruck, the information contained therein being 
reprinted from the “ Australasian Medical Gazette,” for January 
1891, a description is given of these waters. The Ballinore Water 
is compared to the Vichy Waters of France, and stated to be a 
valuable water for gout, gravel, catarrh of the bladder, diabetes 
also for dyspepsia, splenic and hepatic disorders. 
*<¢ Mr, Slee, r.c.s., Superintendent of Drills, in a report to the 
Department of Mines states with regard to the Ballinore bore— 
“That at a depth of five hundred and forty feet the drill passed 
through a seam of coal five feet two inches thick, and while boring 
* Annual Report, Department of Mines 1886, page 179. 
