coal) of North and South Island will be of the greatest value for 
marine purposes, where the best heating fuel occupying the least 
space is required, the brown coal, on the other hand, is well 
adapted for manufacturing and domestic purposes. That those brown 
coals, — being, as they are, of a nature and quality far different 
from English coal , — should in many instances be deemed in New 
Zealand far inferior to what they are, is easily accounted for; and 
years will pass away before prejudices will be overcome with a 
people that hitherto have only known and used the excellent coal 
of their mother country. Time and experience, however, will show 
that the brown coal in New Zealand can be used for the same 
purposes for which just the same coal, and sometimes of a far 
inferior quality , is used on a most extensive scale in various parts 
of Germany and especially in Austria, in whole provinces of which 
(Styria, Krain and Northern Bohemia) it constitutes the almost ex- 
clusive fuel for manufacturing and railroad, as well as for domestic 
purposes. 
