Visit to Out of the Way Gold-fields. Ournie
An out-of the was gold-field, like Ournie does not present a very lively appearance about Christmas time. Holiday-making is the order of the day and work is abandoned;…
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26 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
The Palmer Gold-field
THE following article appeared in the 'Northern Advocate':—"An old friend of ours—one of the first who arrived there—having recently returned…
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TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—On reading the mining news from the Adelong correspondent of your contemporary, the "Tumut Times" for the last two weeks I am glad to note, that an improvement has taken place in the apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Report of the Southern Goldfields Commissioner. 1873
THE Adelong Gold-field has formed one bright exception to the general depression that has marked my district, and the yield of gold produced by its mines during the year,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Strange Scene at a Sandhurst Mine
ON Wednesday, at noon, the dulness pervading the "flags" was disturbed by information being brought from the Burrowes's Freehold Company's mine that a man, well-known at…
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WE are indebted to the pen of Mr. R. A. Watson for an interesting and comprehensive article on this subject, which has recently appeared in the Dublin University…
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THE Minister for Mines (the hon. J. S. Farnell) appears to have lost no time in preparing arrangements for bring the new Mining Act into operation. The regulations…
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THE following are regulations for the election of and conduct of business by members of the mining board under the Mining Act, 1874…
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MR. JOSEPHS HORWOOD, contractor in the fitting Shop, Moon Minea, who, it Will be remembered, on Saturday week at the ring meeting at the mines, was hooted and howled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schedules. Schedule 1. Boundaries of the Division of the Electoral District of the Goldfields South. Lachlan Division
Includes Corrigellico Lake, Lachlan (part of), Emu Greek, Tyagong, Burrangong, Jugeong Greek or Gumbamurrah, Nanama, Gundaroo, Muttama, Gundagai, Adjungbilly,…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred at Sandhurst on Thursday morning at an early hour on the claim of the Carlisle, North Garden Gully, and Passby United Company. It appears…
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A frightful colliery explosion and loss of life occurred on Tuesday night, April 14, at Astley Deep Pitt, Dukinfield, near Manchester, which is said to be one of the deepest in…
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ON April 14, an explosion of an appalling nature occurred at the Astley Deep Pit, Dukinfield, which is worked by Mr. Benjamin Ashton and others, under the style of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Gold-bearing Reef at Albury
THE Black Range, though slow in development, every now and then startles the indifferent residents of Sleepy Hollow with some rare and rich discovery; we say rare,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelong Local News. Mining Board Election
Mr. HENRY COPELAND, the newly elected member of the Mining Board for the Tumut and Adelong division of the Southern Gold Fields, addressed a numerously attended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners of Yorke's Peninsula
THE South Australian Register, alluding to the late strike of miners and the compromise that brought the strike to a close, observes:— "When the Moonta and Wallaroo strike was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wonderful History of the "Emma" Mine
IN the Little Cottonwood Canon, in the territory of Utah, on the Wasatch range of mountains, and about sixteen miles from a station called Sandy, on a branch of the…
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In spi[?]e of all the efforts made to dethrone him, coal still remains king, and none of the pretenders who have risen against him have ever had even…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Regulations for Working Minerals Other Than Gold
FEW of our readers will probably have cared to enter upon the perusal of the regulations for mineral leases, published in our issue of Monday week. With their diffuse and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Coal Fields
A CORRESPONDENT, who wishes to see the Western Coal-fields "go ahead," sends as the following particulars relative to the mines at Bowenfels, and although the…
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