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Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
and demand to report ; and when the extra wharfs and cranes 
now in course of erection at the ^N'ewcastle Harbour are com- 
pleted, there will be a very much larger foreign demand for our 
coal. 
The agreement entered into by the associated masters and the 
officers g.nd delegates of the Coal Miners’ Association of the 
Hunter liiver Disttrict, by which the wages paid for hewing coal, 
and other work usually done by the miners, the hours of labour 
to be observed at the different collieries, and the mode of settling 
any disputes that may arise in reference thereto, aro to be 
arranged, is worldng well, and there is no doubt about its having 
been the means of keeping the price of coal at 14s. per ton 
delivered into vessels in Newcastle harbour. 
I annex a very interesting licturn of the Newcastle Foreign 
and Intercolonial Trade, compiled and kindly given to me by 
Mr. Logan, the Newcastle Collector of Customs. 
I am now preparing for the Philadelphia Exhibition plans show- 
ing the position of the different collieries in New 8outh Wales, 
with the outcrop of the seams of coal shown thereon ; also, sec- 
tions to illustrate the thickness of the seams of coal, and the 
part worked in all our principal coal mines ; as well as a longi- 
tudinal section of the lower coal measures near Ntroud, in wffiich 
there are ISigillaria, Htigmaria, &c. 
As soon as I have finished them I propose to make you a 
Supplementary Eeport for the past year, which will contain an 
account of the whole of our Coal Fields, and the new mines opened 
out in the year 1874. 
