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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5302, 24 September 1885, Page 2

■•••-■ nn-ii'V .NOTICES F r vi. per Wallabi, this day, at. 5 p. m. For Wellington, per St. Kildti, this day, at 7 a.m. For Lyttelton, per Tlerald, this day, at 5p m Fo:- Ne son, Westport. and "Reefto >, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6 30 a.m. • For Cliristchurch, Punedin and Australian Colonies, ma Christchurch, every Thursday, at 3 p.m. Money orders may be obtained and letters registered one hour before the time of closing any mail. HUGH CALDERS, Chief Postmaster.

The coal deposits of Borneo are too valuable to be neglected. A writer urges that England should buy or rent the privilege of mining there. ' ' There are few countries in the world perhaps where coal is so extensively developed. Thick seams of coal crop out in innumerable places on the coast and river banks." The seams are sometimes twenty feet thick, the coal is of excellent quality, quite bituminised and not brittle. Near Moara there are some valuable mines worked by two Scotchmen, who- pay the of liiuui an annual: dental of tfnly a few thousand dollar*.