The Neteon Examiner, of the 12th, gives the following item of interest :— " An in teresting experiment has been made with coal brought from the Karamea coal-mine by Mr Walker. It was used for an hour in the furnaces of the steamer Lady Barkley, on one of her trips this week, and with the greatest success. Usually, the Barkley steams with lolb or 161 bof pressure of steam, and with the Karamea coal a pressure of 171 b was easily maintained. The coal burns very freely, leaves but little ash, and appears to be a good house coal as well an a steam coal. The land on which the mine is situated has been secured, we believe, and we learn that the vein is in close proximity to a port at which the water is sixteen feet deep at spring tides, and with plenty of accommodation for shipping."

At Hokitika, an importer named Samuel Meyerstein .was fined LSO on Tuesday last, for a breach of the Customs Regulations.
