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5. Inform candidates that rapidity in transcribing notes into longhand is essential, and note carefully on the transcribed copy the exact time taken in transcription. Candidates must not look at their notes while a passage that does not concern them is being read. 6. Inform them also that the clearness and accuracy of the shorthand notes (which must in every case be sent in attached to the transcript) will be taken account of by the examiner; and that they must not alter the shorthand notes after the dictation is finished. Passages fob Dictation. (a.) At the rate of 80 words per minute. Takes 10 minutes. Coal-mining. I now come to one of the most important branches of the mining industry—namely, coalmining, which is steadily progressing year after year in proportion to the increase of our population requiring fuel, and to the establishment of industries using coal for generating motivepower. The increase in the output from our mines where lignite, brown, and pitch coal are obtained can only take place as the demand for local consumption increases, for, although the 1 best of [ these classes of coal can be carried some distance from the mines, its supply is limited to the consumption, it may be said, within a radius of 150 miles, as no large stock of it can be kept on hand on account of its breaking up and crumbling away by exposure to the atmosphere. It is therefore only from bituminous coal-mines that a large increased output 2 can be looked for; and, as our principal bituminous coalfield |is on the western slope of the main range in the Middle Island, the yearly increased output from the mines in this part of the colony cannot be expected to be much greater than hitherto until the harbours at Westport and Greymouth are completed to such an extent that vessels carrying 3,000 tons on one bottom can leave these ports, so as to carry the coal to markets outside of 3 the colony. No large sudden increase in | the output from our mines need be expected on the completion of these harbours, as it will take some years to open up the mines and find ■foreign-markets for the coal. Seeing that there is now a large number of coal-mines being worked in Japan, where the cost of labour is extremely small, the coal from that country being taken to different ports in India and South America, it is only owing to the superior quality 4 of our | coal that we may hope to find a market, and this will take a certain time to establish. We may, however, reasonably expect that coal properties in this colony, on the completion of the West Coast harbours, will be able to compete with those in New South Wales in supplying coal to any of the other Australian Colonies. 5 During last year the total output from all the mines of the colony was 668,794 tons, as | against 637,397 for the previous year, thus showing an increase in the output of 31,397 tons. The quantity of coal imported was 120,775 tons from New South Wales, and 4,543 tons from other countries, making 125,318 tons, as against 110,939 tons imported 6 for the previous year. This shows an increase in the quantity | imported for the previous year of 14,379 tons. In regard to importation of coal from New South Wales, the quantity has varied from 98,241 tons to 144,442 tons per annum. The total quantity imported from New South Wales during the last twelve years was 1,428,309 tons, which is equal to an average 7 annual importation of 119,026 | tons. It may be said, taking one year with another, that the importation of coal from New South Wales has varied very little. A great deal of this is due to the coal being carried as back-freight by vessels trading with produce between here and Australia, and also by coal being used to fill up as dead-weight in vessels carrying timberTaking the output from the mines last year and the quantity of coal imported, it makes 8 a | total of 794,112 tons, as against 748,366 tons for the previous year. The quantity exported last year was 99,464 tons, but out of this 70,371 tons is returned by the Customs Department as coal exported to the United Kingdom, which means that it was used for coaling the Direct 9 steamers; this may fairly be termed consumption within the colony on the same | basis as supplying coal for the Union Company's steamers in the intercolonial trade ; therefore, on this assumption, the net export last year was 29,093 tons, out of which 6,300 tons was of foreign produce. Deducting the quantity of coal exported it leaves the consumption within the colony last year as being 765,019 tons, as against 714,932 tons for the previous year, which 10 shows | (6.) At the rate of 120 words per minute. Takes 10 minutes. My friend says, "Of course he could." I submit, your Honour, if this run had risen in value, and Scott had dared to assume that position, he would have found himself here with Morrin v. Kissling quoted against him, and Driver v. Carson quoted against him—these cases decided in this Court and the Court of Appeal—and he would have been asked this question : " Did not Mr. Henderson suggest to you that- you should go to Preston and try and make a commission off him by selling the run that stood in your name to him?" and Scott would have had to answer, " Yes, I did see a prospect of a commission ;" and then he would have 1 been asked, | "How, sir, do you reconcile the suggestion that you were willing to make a commission with the statement that this run is yours?" That alone would have barred Scott in any such case, and, by the same token, it answers Mr. Henderson, and disposes of him. Now, I submit that whatever difficulty they might have had in making a case against Scott to render up the run, supposing it had become valuable, there is no difficulty in making a case against them — that they have treated themselves as the absolute owners. Mr. Henderson leaves uncontradicted Scott's statements that he (Mr. Henderson) told Scott that there was a chance of making a commission on it by selling 2 it to Preston. That |is Scott's uncontradicted evidence. What is a commission but a profit possibly made by Scott out of the property of the defendants ?—certainly not a profit made