CHAPTER IV. 
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The Mineral Riches of New Zealand. 
Mineral Coal. 
Government Geologists in the English Colonies. — Demand for coal-supplies upon the 
Southern Hemisphere. — The Australian Newcastle. — Brown coal upon North Island. — 
The coalfield in the Drury and Hnnua Districts near Auckland. — Ambrite, a new fossil 
resin. — Fossil plants. — The coalfield on the Lower Waikato. — On the Middle Waikato 
and on the Waipa. — Recent lignite. — Coal upon South-Island. — Jenkui’s Colliery near 
Nelson. — Motupipi brown coal. — Pakawau coal. — Coal on the Buller and Grey Rivers. — 
Coal in the provinces of Canterbury and Otago. — Conclusive remarks. — Appendix. Synopsis 
of the results from analytical investigations of New Zealand coals. 
It is not only their manners and customs, but also their ex- 
cellent institutions that the sons of Albion carry with them across 
the ocean. The farfamcd Geological Institution in Jermyn street 
has its members all over the world. Under the excellent direction 
of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison , the liberal patron of geographical 
and geological science, — to whom I also am greatly indebted for 
various proofs of kindness, — that Institution has become a nursery 
of worthy young geologists, who carry on their researches and ex- 
plorations in all parts of the world. The English Colonial Govern- 
ments, convinced of the great benefit, that can be conferred on 
the industrial arts by an accurate study of the crust of the earth, 
have spared no expense to secure zealous labourers in the field 
of science and by their help to carry through the geological and 
mineralogical explorations of the colonies. Thus we have seen for 
years past the Government geologists busy at their work in India, 
