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120 lake, and there fishing, swimming, and a little boating can be indulged in by the mine Sahibs and their Memsahibs. And there is a Club where these people meet twice a week for tennis, billiards, and bridge, and where they give an occasional ball to which all the Europeans for many miles round are invited. The Company has built a church, and, when I was there, Singareni had just escaped having a Bishop, the Bishop of Madras having been anxious to make a See at Singareni for Bishop Azariah, and to convert the Company's pretty little church into a cathedral of some sort.

At sunset I went to the office, where the English manager gave me a bundle of papers in which I could find the information I wanted, and he promised that one of his English staff should call for me early the following morning and drive me round the twenty pits, which stretch over a considerable distance.

I read that the Singareni coalfields were discovered in 1872 by Dr. King of the Indian Geological Survey Department, and in 1886 the Hyderabad-Deccan Company acquired the mining rights from His Highness's government. English miners were afterwards sent to lay out the works of an English colliery,