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D.—2.

RETURN No. 29. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Return of Coal Traffic from Local Mines during the Year ending 31st March, 1899.

RETURN No. 30. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Return of the Number of Vessels discharged and loaded at the Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Bluff, for the Year ending 31st March, 1899.

Mine. 1898-99. 189J-98. Increase. Decrease. Austin Brothers, Sheffield Springfield Coal Company, Springfield Leeming and Co., Whitecliffs Levick, Whitecliffs Deans, J., Glentunnel Wairiri Coal Company, Glentunnel Park, G., Mount Homers Albury Kurow Ngapara Shag Point Allendale Coal Company... Walton Park ... Saddle Hill Fernhill Freeman's Mosgiel Loveil's Plat Gibson and Lees (Loveil's Flat) Nelson's Kaitangata Milton Lakeside, Stirling Anderson's, Stirling Penman, Kaitangata Conical Hills O'Hagan, C, Pukerau Orchard, E. 0., Pukerau ... Glover, A., Otikerama Johnston, W., Waikaka ... Smyth, J., Gore Sleeman, C. P., Mataura ... Beattie, J., Mataura Brown's, Mataura Glendhu, Mataura " Munro, B., Wyndham Darcy's, Nightcaps ... ... Nightcaps Coal Company, Nightcaps Alley, J., Nightcaps Quested, J., Nightcaps Hokonui Coal Company, Winton ... Smith and Logan, Kingston Crossing Graham, J., Fairfax Tons. 2,119 i,2S7 Tons. 1,958 1,214 1,427 Tons. 161 43 Tons. 1,692 2,977 247 1,138 1,692 277 1,427 2,700 460 i,4i4 105 18 213 276 105 14 4 9 20,155 13,286 8,586 4,582 3,9 8 o 7,S2o 6,681 36 8, 128 928 101,660 290 4 30 40 2,472 432 49 6 4 21,015 11,967 10,603 6,157 7,430 3,026 146 5,i99 i,34o 93,654 5 1,319 4,582 90 3,655 2,929 860 2,017 2,77 no 8,006 290 412 16 4 26 40 59S 27 49 6 12 1,877 405 409 58i 95 238 12 460 152 5 66 429 90 172 12 Si "84 1,752 20,706 4 89 1,602 19,695 12 ISO 1,011 4 s 20 20 12 16 37 20 5 37 4 5 Totals 212,209 194,298 25,664 7-753

Port. 1898-99. 1895-98. Increase. Decrease. )iscHAnajSD:— Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff No. 1,610 24S 132 154 76 209 No. i,S96 265 119 320 64 226 No. 14 No. 13 20 12 166 17 Totals 2,426 2,590 39 203 1OADBH : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff 1.575 242 123 199 9 209 i,53i 265 139 373 7 225 44 23 16 174 2 I6 Totali 2.357 2.540 46 229