Forbes and Parkes. Mining—sudden Death
Messrs. M'Millian, Pennington, and Co. of Parkes, have finished retorting from a crushing of 130 tons of stone from the Magpie Reef, near Tichborne, which yielded 530oz.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1885
7 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers
Country Intelligence. Sunny Corner. Mining Matters
A new silver lode has been struck at a depth of 60 feet in the Rising Sun Company's property, 2½ miles north-east of Sunny Corner. Very good progress is being made with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parkes. the Parkes Goldfield
On Monday a large number of miners met to consider the bust means of expending the portion of tho vote for prospecting allotted to tho Parkes goldfield. A committee was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burying a Cannibal King. the Brutal Human Sacrifices of the Fetish Priests of the Gold Coast
A RETURNED missionary from the African gold coast, tells a reporter of the New York World some woeful stories of the cruelties of human sacrifices practised by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Colliery Disaster. 339 Men Entombed. Over One Hundred Killed. Heartrending Scenes
MANCHESTER, Thursday Evening.—A terrible colliery catastrophe, the full effects of which are not yet known, occurred this morning near this town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cannon Filled with Gold. Discovery of Burgoyne's Treasure Chest at the Bottom of a Creek
Troy, N. Y. July 13th.—There are any number of men hereabouts who possess charts and maps of locations said to contain millions of buried treasure. Down the river there are caves…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Select Poetry. Links on the Clifton Hall Colliery Disaster
Down, down, below, where all is night, In earth's dark bowels deep; At Clifton Hall, some time ago. Nearly two hundred men did sleep…
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