New Goldfield
A gentleman just arrived from Mount Leyshon, a new goldfield 16 miles south of Charters Towers, says that a lease of 1200 feet by half a mile has been held by 21 shareholders for…
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40 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
New Mining Regulations
In a few days the revised regulations come into force. The object of the revision which has been made by Mr. Abbott is to prevent the practice of monopolising the land by bogus…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Gold in the Kimberley Country
MR. EDWARD T. HARDMAN, government geologist of Western Australia, recently accompanied a Kimberley survey party, and has sent in his report to the Surveyor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining at Bethanga
Mining is the principal interest, and on its success the fate of Bethanga depends. Some six or eight years ago the township reached the zenith of its prosperity, the various leases…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Mining Accident in Victoria. Eaglehawk
A fearful accident, resulting in the death of two men, occurred this afternoon in a claim in old Pegleg Lead, about a mile and a half west the township. John Holborn, about 60…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Disastrous Colliery Explosion. 120 Lives Lost. [By Submarine Cable.] London, March 8
A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred in Austria, by which 120 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Telegrams. the Minister of Mines at Balranald. Balranald
The following telegrams, etc., appeared in our up-country supplement last Saturday:— Mr Abbott and Messrs Cramsie and Wilkinson were met at some distance from the town by a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Granya Mines
The prospects of Granya as a mining centre are spoken of hopefully. There is a large area that has been thoroughly prospected, and on which gold has been proved to exist in payable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Another Mining Discovery
A new find of silver is reported near the Pack Saddle station, 110 miles from Silverton, The load is large, and the one has given a good essay. Broken-hill shares are very scarce on…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fatal Mining Accident
The Ballarat correspondent of the Age states that a fatal mining accident has happened at Scotchman's in the Buninyong district. A young man named Vernon Hampton was, in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Traveller. 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 the fetish priests. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Bethanga Miners and the Wallace Smelting Company. to the Editor Op the Albury Banner
SIB,—As the unhappy lock-out of miners which, has taken place here by the action of the company has not yet been settled, would you kindly publish the enclosed letters from…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Traveller. Burying a Cannibal King. the Brutal Human [?] of the Frtish [?] of the Gold Coast
A RETURNED misaionary from the African gold coast, tolls a reporter of the New York World some woeful stories of the [?] of human sacrifices practised by the fetish priests. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident in a Mine
A melancholy and fatal accident occurred Buninyong last week, at Trezise’s Tribute claim of the Imperial Company, Hiscock’s. Martha Williams, aged about 17 years, who…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Hon. J. A. Wallace and the Bethanga Miners
The following letter has been addressed to the press by Mr. Wallace :— Sir,—Lately I have seen in the columns of your paper several letters in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Poetry. Mine Enemy
Mine enemy, who time and oft, Had smitten me with words like swords, And trampled on my answer soft, Till I too smote with angry words…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Find Gold and Silver. a Man who says he has Invented a New Diving-Rod
A WELL-KNOWN contractor and builder now living in this village has recently perfected an instrument by means of which he is able, as he says, to discover the location of hidden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. Mine Enemy
MINE enemy, who time and oft, Had smitten me with words like swords, And trampled on my answer soft, Till I too smote with angry words,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wallace Bethanga Mining Company
A special meeting of the Bendigo Miners’ Association was held at Sandhurst on Tuesday, for the purpose of bearing an explanation by Mr. George Williams of Ballarat, the president…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →To Find Gold and Silver. a Man who says he has Invented a New Divining Rod
A WELL-KNOWN contractor and builder now living in this village has recently perfected an instrument by means of which he is able, as he says, to discover the location of bidden…
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