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Hoping you will lay our humble petition before the proper authorities, and endeavour to help us, by doing so you will help the whole of the colony, We are, your humble and obedient servants, Eobert Eussell, Mayor, Deputy. Edward Goodwin, Miner. Eichard Masters, Deputy. Griffith Owens, Miner. James Hunter, Deputy. Elias Kear, Labourer. David Armstrong, Miner. John Walker, Miner. William Watchman, Miner. Thomas Armstrong, Trucker. Matthew Watchman, Miner. William Daw, Miner. George Newton, Miner. John Gill, Miner. William McLuskie, Miner. Henry Jones, Miner. William Bennie, Miner. James Junk, Banksman. Thomas Campbell, Miner. Benjamin Wiliams, Screenman. Thomas Watchman, Miner. Joseph Beynon, Miner. Edward Smith, Miner. William Anderson, Miner. Frederick Horton, Miner. William Griffiths, Miner. George Goodwin, Onsetter. George Geoghegan, Miner. Matthew Goodwin, Miner. George Todd, Miner. Eobert Thompson, Striking. John Mosley, Joiner. Thomas Glenn, Miner. John Junk, Pit-head-man. Samuel Glenn, Engine-driver. Alexander Muir, Miner. The Commissioners, Eoyal Coal Commission. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,375 copies), £1 Is.

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