Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1861

16 stories in Riverina's papers

Colonial News. Burrangong Gold Fields

The Wynyard Times · Friday 22 February 1861 · page 1

In the absence of any more direct information from this gold-field, we extract from the the S. M. Herald their latest telegrams. Yesterday three men were committed for…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Local & District Items. Gold Near Tumut

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 16 April 1861 · page 2

WE have often called the attention of our refers to the auriferous resources of our neighbour-hooded the extreme probability that we shall sooner or later find ourselves the centre, and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Adelong Mining Intelligence

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 23 April 1861 · page 2

Although the aspect of the Lower Adelong may not at this present moment be very enlivening, yet there exists abundant promise that affairs will soon take a turn, and our Reefs, under wiser and more…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Adelong Mining Intelligence

The Wynyard Times · Friday 10 May 1861 · page 2

The passage of Mr. Wilson's bill has come very opportune for the fortunes of the Adelong. The Donkey Reef Company were in their operations beginning to feel the need of its existence, and will no…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Local & District Items. Important Disovery of Payable Gold Near Gundagai

The Wynyard Times · Friday 24 May 1861 · page 2

We received a visit yesterday at our office from Mr. Bellardi, a practical miner, who informed us that after five or six weeks continuous prospecting be had succeeded in discovering payable gold, and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

An Act to Limit the Liability Of Mining Partnerships. Preamble

The Wynyard Times · Friday 24 May 1861 · page 4

WHERE AS it is expedient that encouragement should be given for the investment of capital in mining adventures and that provision should he made for the limitation of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Complimentary Dinner to John B. Wilson, Esq., M.p. for the Gold Fields South

The Wynyard Times · Friday 14 June 1861 · page 4

THE complimentary dinner to the Member for the Gold Fields South came off with great eclat on the evening of Tuesday last, at Mr. J. Dwyer's, George Hotel, Major Creek, when…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Local & District Items. Mining Accident

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 25 June 1861 · page 2

A very serious accident, we regret to state, occurred in Mr. Crouch's claim, on tho Victoria Reef, by which a miner narrowly escaped destruction. It would appear that two men were Working in a drive…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Arrival of the "Benares" with the English Mail. (Per Electric Telegraph.) Progress of WAR in America. Issue of letters of Marque. Gold discovered in Nova Scotia Annexation of St. Domingo to Spain. ADELAIDE, Thursday, 10 a.m

The Wynyard Times · Friday 12 July 1861 · page 2

The branch steamer Balclutha, arrived in Port Adelaide on Wednesday morning, with the May mails. The Royal Mail Steamship Benares arrived…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Quartz Mines of California

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 16 July 1861 · page 4

The extent which this important branch of mining enterprise is beginning to assume in California, may be gathered from the following extract from our California files. A…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Adelong Mining Report

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 23 July 1861 · page 2

The past continuous rains must seriously affect our next escort. With the Adelong rolling a flood, alluvial mining totally suspended, and all communications closed between the mines and the crushing…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Adelong Mining Report

The Wynyard Times · Friday 2 August 1861 · page 2

Affairs are decidedly beginning to look up ; amalgamation is now the order of the day. The talk is everywhere of companies, and certainly the movement has not begun too soon, for we were getting…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Local & District Items. the Victoria Pioneer Quartz Mining Company

The Wynyard Times · Friday 16 August 1861 · page 2

THE Shareholders in the Victoria Pioneer Quarta Mining Company held their first general meeting on Wednesday last, pursuant to advertisement, at the Pride of Galway Hotel, Adelong: the object of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

New Zealand. the Tuapeka Gold-fields

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 20 August 1861 · page 4

The gold escort returned from the Tuapeka yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, having left the gold-field on Thursday at noon. The arrival of the first escort produced as much…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Adelong Mining Report

The Wynyard Times · Friday 15 November 1861 · page 2

The machines for the past week or two have been pretty easily engaged, and there is now accumulating a nice little lot of stone at the various shafts. The reefs on the whole are…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Local & Colonial News. Adelong Mining Report

The Wynyard Times · Friday 13 December 1861 · page 2

Since our last report a great quantity of quariz has been reduced, the yield is most instance being satisfactory. The Victorian Reel [?] for the stone…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →