Recovery Op the Box of Gold Port Darwin (From the South Australian Register, Jan 10)
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 January 1876 · page 5
MR. OTHEN, who was employed to go to the northern territory to dive for the box of gold lost at Port Darwin when being put on board the Claud Hamilton some months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Department and Mr. Brough Smyth
Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 16 February 1876 · page 4
The following [?] the [?] of the [?] officers for the appointment of a board for a general inquiry:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Colliery Explosion and Loss of Life
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 8
A TERRIBLE colliery explosion, which, it is feared, will result in more than two hundred lives being lost, has juel occurred at Swaithe Main Colliery, about four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GOLD v. WOOL
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 4
GOLD, in the year 1875, ranked highest among the exports of Queensland. The “wandering digger” has asse[?]ted himself in a style which it would not be…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1876 · page 3
A GREAT deal of interest has lately been taken in the reputed new gold-fields at the far north, and enquiries are daily made as to the latest intelligence from them. Up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Palmer Gold Fields
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1876 · page 2
WE offer our readers the usual late intelligence from the rush. Since our last publication we learn that several miners from Adelong and Tumut have left for Cooktown,…
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Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 4
CAPTAIN R. B. Nicholetis, R.N., writes to the Times:—"During the bombardment of Callao by the Spanish squadron under Admiral Mendez…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Palmer Gold Fields
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1876 · page 3
THE rush northward still continues, and from most of the mining districts of New South Wales the tide of diggers has set in for the new £1 Dorado which Mulligan and Co. have made…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 3
FTOM time to time we have carefully collated and digested the news from this locality, and have again and again earnestly deprecated any tendency to a " rush " from these…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 4
A VERY important discovery has been made, at Clunes. The correspondent to the 'Balarat Star' writes as follows :—The theory of gold at great depths has again been proved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Great Mining Case. Emeracery Case at the City Court
Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 3 May 1876 · page 4
At the City Court yesterday, James Westley, a lawyer’s clerk in the employ of Mr. Snowden, solicitor, was charged with the somewhat novel offence of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Palmer Gold Fields
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1876 · page 2
THERE is but little fresh news to hands respecting this rush. The Government proclamation, however, has effectually stopped the exodus from Sydney ports; all the later…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Palmer Gold Fields
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 2
THE exodus of miners from Sydney is completely and thoroughly stopped, the last steamer from Sydney only carrying four passengers. The Ty-e-moon is on the berth for…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1876 · page 2
IN our last resume of the news from this region we mentioned that the exodus of miners from Sydney had quite ceased, but the exodus from Queensland ports back again to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →500 Tons of Gold
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1876 · page 4
It will surprise the majority of our readers to hear that the gold in the vaults of the Bank of France at the present moment exceeds 500 tons in weight—in other words, it weighs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Region Assassins. (From the Philadelphia Ledger, May 24.)
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 5
POE several weeks past a murder-trial of great importance to the coal regions of this state has been in progress at Pottsville. Five men charged with that crime are also…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Coal
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 27 September 1876 · page 2
The Admiralty have instructed Commodore Heski[?]s to report on the suitability of New Zealand coal for naval use in the Pacilic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Hundred Men Imprisoned in a Coal-mine
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1876 · page 8
GREAT excitement was caused in the colliery districts of Pendle bury and Clifton, about four miles from Manchester, last week, owing to an extraordinary accident which happened…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extraordinary Mining Incident. (Queenslander.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1876 · page 1
Our New Zealand correspondent sends us the following account of one of the most extraordinary casualties which has probably ever been placed on record:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelong Local News. Starting the New Engine at the Adelong Gold Mining Company
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1876 · page 2
Monday being fixed upon for the opening day, and every thine being in readiness, the manager, Mr. John McLennan, issued invitations to most of the leading men of the locality,…
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