Pages 35 and 36 of Alfred Kitching's diary

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for a copy of the before named letters see No.1. J. Dixons Report.

The Aggregate quantities of coals sent from the various collieries for land sale and exportation from an [struck through] the 9th to the 15th inclusive
amounted to 5675 Chaldrons
Corresponding week last year 5490 do
Coals shipped at Middlesbro 3490 do
Corresponding week last year 3688 do
Coals shipped at Stockton 595 do
Corresponding week last year 495 do
Merchandise
Tons Cwt £ s d
Amounted to 679. 16 Receipts 188. 14. 9
Corres’g week last year 550. 13 do 155. 14. 2

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The number of passengers conveyed between Middlesbro and St. Helens and the intermediate stations £ s d
amounted to 5513 Receipts 239. 16. 2
Corresponding week last year 5958 Do 246. 15. 1

Going North
168 passengers Receipts 44.18. 6
207 do (Corrs’g week last year) do 53. 6. 0

Going South
218 passengers do 56. 5. 0
249 do last year do 57.15. 0

The Auckland and Weardale Board also met to day at ½ past 1, which I attended, but have nothing particular to record.