Discovery of Coal
A DISCOVERY of coal near Casterton is reported by the Hamilton Spectator.;— “ It has been known for many years that coal existed in the Wannon Valley, but…
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12 stories in Riverina's papers
Correspondence. to the Electors of the Southern Gold Fields. Per Favor of the Gundagai Times
SIR AND GENTLEMEN.—We are now in the midst of a gold-field election, and it becomes the bounden duty of every miner in this electorate, to see that he is prepared to utilise his privilege by the return to…
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A great deal of interest has been attached here to the above race, with respect to the weight our local champion "The Diver" would have allotted to him, and the weights…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Adventure at a Miner’s Wedding. (From the Liverpool Mercury)
FOR some time after the kicking outrage in Tithebarn-street, Liverpool, which resulted in the death of a young man named Morgan, the police were unable to obtain any…
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IT seems more than probable that the gold fever will break out very shortly in India. Already the premonitory symptoms have strongly set in. The 'Friend of India'…
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IN California, or rather in its sister State, Nevada, there has been discovered a mass of gold and silver, a region of actual real wealth, before which the wildest stories of the Cortez…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Mining at Clunes
WE acknowledged in last issue, the receipt of a pamphlet entitled "Notes on the Clunes Gold Mines, Reduction Works, and Water Supply, by Mr John Usher, C.E., who, as we…
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THE Cooktown Herald of March 13th says: —There was a rumour of a new rush a few days ago, but having no tangible evidence to speak authoritatively of it, we refrained from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collieries and Ironworks in China. (From the British Mercantile Gazette.)
MB. HENDERSON, who has passed about thirty years in China, and who is now in England, has been commissioned by the mandarins in charge of the arsenals of…
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THE report of the Chief Inspector of Mines was laid before the Victorian Parliament on Tuesday, and from it we extract the following statement…
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THE new Mining Bill will, after all, be introduced this session. On Monday, (the 'S. M. Herald' states), the House resolved itself into committee, and Mr Lucas moved that it…
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A CONTEMPORARY gives the following summary of the chief features of the above measure a draft of which was laid on the table of the Assembly prior to the prorogation of…
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