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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1099, 27 October 1879, Page 2

DBfi-P-sfEATEu prejudice, the effect of i travelling f»r many years in a beaten j track, is at hist yielding to o>n:imii sense. | Our coal measures are about to receive j the amount of recognition that they! deserve at the hands of the coal consumers [ of the Colony. Not long ago the New-j castle coal trade had such a hold upon us Chit all attempts to stamp it out, or even to appreciably reduce it, seemed futile. It was itrgexl as a reason for its continuance that our con! was suitable for little else than domestic purposes. The railway department. however, fitrty tested it. and, as a result of experiments, has gradually adopted it, until it is almost exclusively used on the railways of" the Middle Island. We need scarcely point out the advantages that will accrue from this utilisation of one of our products. Already the department is swing several thousand pounds ;;er annum, and the suvirn: will he still when the sfcocks.:f Newcastle coal on hiiid t-cjonnrj e.tluMisted, ar.d c->t"t»iai c».d is excito,; •'■}' usod. Wt have learned »n eu< puiry that the I department: purple* »:.»i:;g Malvern lli.ts ' eo*Ua Canter i>ttry,andS.ha.fJ*.d:;F audlvai- i tangata. i:i Otago. a.j f'let fr .-o.tines. whikt in the workshop* tWy will «su that | from Greymouth. Tin? value of our c»:\\ j measure* is, therefore i.» I -wgei- a debut-j able point, and it now i.lLv remarr'S forj our mines to h- worked vigorously j ?l > as to keep :>:■• supply np | the gradually ir.ere.to'.ng tivmsud. The | ratlws.y department U "> be e-aipli-; mentvd on the spirit with which ic has j broken the back of a trade which «.asj depriving Colonial enterprise of its just f «>w;ud. and by whU-h h»f.dr-jds of i thottsauiLi a year trere being .'■■■■iiz t |> ai iieigliho'i-ing Colony. Itt. conduct c >n- | trast* ntost f„..ira't)iy with t:,:.::. o- i ♦"Jovernwent ottict...'.; who iii.iitet up.;;; i the twleasm'Sui of all tiuti-.-s ( .'.>iouta!. \