AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
• -4 By Er-acTßic Telegraph.—Copyrigh . (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received April 16, 1.10a.m.) Sydney, April 15. Sailed—Hauroto, for Wellington. A seam of coal Gft thick has been discovered at Liverpool, 22 miles south of Sydney. The seam is 2500 ft down, and the discovery proves beyond doubt that coal seams are not thinning out toward Sydney to such an extent as is commonly believed. In fact it is a matter for consideration whether the coal will not in future be worked under the city of Sydney at not much greater depth than the Liverpool find. Mr T. W. E. David, a geological surveyor, and one of the highest authorities on coal measures in this Colony has determined that the western and southern coal seams hitherto thought to be disUnct are one and the same, and only interrupted by intrusive rocks. Lord Carrington has started for Bourke, the town threatened by the flood. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8965, 16 April 1890, Page 5
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