f The Report of the Scientific Commission being not yet complete, we contract our notice of the >Austian exploring party, for the present, within * the limits of a few lines,, so asnot to anticipate, * by loose observations derived from conversation, ' what will so soonW drawn out improper form by themselves. - We may state, however, in general terms, that > the coal on Mr.. Farmer's land is decided to be "lignite,"— notain the usual English sense, but in the etymological sense of the word, *.c., , coal Zmed from Wood. We believe this We to %c identical with the "brown coal" of the Eng lish geological books, which is used extensively Jin Anstritt'for smelting work. . , * + v ft t As was' surmised, before the arrival of the i "Novara," from the fossils contained in it, some * of which are typical, the coal is of tertiary form v ation. It is also supposed to extend over the >jwhole of the Manukau plain.
