Emu Creek Mining Report
THERE are no fresh discoveries to report this week, and therefore little can be said of our mining prospects, further than that the two gullies now at work are being steadily…
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Mining & the mines, 1867
16 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Terrible Colliery Explosions
THE past month has been one of the most fatal that has been known in the mining districts of England. On December 10 there was an explosion from fire dump at…
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The whole of the bodies of the unfortunate men killed by the explosion in Staffordshire have, it is believed, been recovered. The filling of the furnace pit at Barnsley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Murder of Mr Burke. Confession of Searle and Recovery of the Gold. Smythesdale, 4th June
The man Searle, landlord of the Cosmopolitan hotel, Break-o-Day, and now in custody with Ballan, charged with the murder of Mr Burke, late manager of the Bank of Australasia here, has made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fearful Scene in a Cornish Mine
A SAD accident occurred in North Levant Mine, St Just, on Monday. Two miners were stopping in the seventy-fathom level, going east, and knew that they approached…
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EMU CREEK DIGGINGS.—This gold-field is fast assuming a large development, and promises to be not only permanent, but equal in size to any yet opened up in this colony. The alluvial deposits have…
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GRENFELL MINING REPORT —There is little news of importance to be recorded this week of any of our rushes. The Seven-mile, which is the spot on which all hopes are concentrated, has been quiet,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AMERICA. Gold, 139½ sterling; exchange, London, 110
The President vetoed a bill for enlarging the powers of the Southern district commanders, and has forbidden the removal of the latter without the consent of the Senate. Congress passed the bill over…
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NEW QUARTZ REEF AT MUTTAMA.—The Gundagai correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express states that a new qartz reef was discovered at Muttama last week; and if the specimens exhibited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Araluen Mining Court. Before J. W. Burne, Esq., P.M. and Messrs. Cummins and Watt, assessors
William Hunt, complainant; Charles Heeger, Henry Heeger, Peter Rappenhaker, George Polon, and Patrick Matthews, defendants. This was a case of trespass. The facts are as…
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THE GOLD-FIELD AT NOBES'S.—This field is not as reports would make it appear. No new discoveries have been made, and on the whole things look rather queer; consequently the appearance of the miners…
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NEW DIGGINGS ON THE CLYDE RIVER.—A party of three men came to Nelligen a few days ago by a small boat, from an apparently rich gully discovered by them, eighteen miles from Nelligen—…
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THE GOLD FIELD AT JUNCTION POINT.—A few items of intelligence have reached us from a correspondent in the neighbourhood of the Junction Point gold field on the Tuena road. There are at present…
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JUNCTION POINT GOLD-FIELD.—October 2.—The Binda correspondent of the Southern Argus writes.—Since my last this gold-field has progressed favourably, considering the very inclement state of the…
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ARRIVAL OF 208 OUNCEL OF GOLD.—The s.s. Midge arrived on the morning of September 30 from the Thames, with 208 oz. of gold from Barry's Reef. She also brought five bags of very rich quartz from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Murder of the Rockhampton Gold Escort
THE Brisbane Courier of the 12th instant contains the following telegram from Rock hampton with reference to the murder of the troopers forming the escort from thence to…
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