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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1799, 29 August 1906, Page 56

In requesting a friend in Wellington to lay a wreath on the grave of the late Premier, Mr A. Poarse. of 14, Willow road, Hampstead Heath, writes:— “No expressions of sorrow can pourtray my feelings of deep sympathy with you and New Zealand, nay, the whole Empire, in the calamitous death of the Premier. Still, Providence has been kind to your favoured land, not only in giving you such a powerful individuality to steer* the helm for so many years, but also in providing such strong men to carry on the good work so ably begun, and I hope this kind Providence, whoso dispensations we cannot _ understand, will bless and help you to succeed in your great work.” For the year 1905 the colony’s output of coal was 1,585,756 tons, an increase of 47,918 tons on the preceding year. A feature of the coalmining industry is the number of small pits that exist in Otagje, where outcrops of lignite are quarried for local use, both, domestic and dredging. Mines employing fewer than six men require a competent but not a certificated person to be in charge. In some cases the lignite deposits are worked in summer to provide fuel for winter use. The approximate quantity of coal, etc., raised from mines throughout the colony up to the 31st December, 1905, is returned at 21,701,419 tons. The number of persons ordinarily employed at all the mines to which the Coal-mines Act applies is returned at 833 above ground, and 2436 below ground, making a total of 3269. Ml* Leslie Reynolds has been engaged by the Pictoo Borough Council to draw up a sewerage scheme for nart of the town-