Adelong Local News. Southern Gold-fields
The nomination for the Southern Gold-fields took place in the Court-house, Adelong, on the 2nd instant. The Hon. E. A. Baker was proposed by Mr W. M. Hotten and seconded by…
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Deputation to the Minister for Mines
A deputation consisting of Messrs Wilson, Menlove, Hotten, McLellan[?] Love, Curtis, Griot, and Sargood, on Thursday, the 2nd instant, waited on the Hon. E. A.. Baker,…
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THE following statement is made by the New York Commercial Chronicle, a newspaper not given to sensational announcements:—"The exhibition made by Mr. Salisbury on the 13th…
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The following report on this gold-field for 1879, which has been supplied to us by Mr G. Morris, Mining Registrar, will be read with interest. Our gold-mining operations for the year 1878…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold, the Civiliser. (London Examiner.)
GOLD is, after all, the great civiliser; money, coined or uncoined, makes the colonial mare to go; Glthy lucre is the root of evil and of emigration. Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discovert Op Coal in Gippsland. (Argus.)
WHAT may prove to be an important formation of coal has lately been discovered on the selection of Mr. Peter Miles, at the Moe, close to the…
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The following are the boundaries of the Gundagai Extended Gold Field, recently gazetted:—County of Clarendon, parishes of North Gundagai and Kimo, to include those parishes, area…
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THE great crushing of the stone from the Mountain Maid, at the Barrington, has been (says the Evening News) the topic of conversation on Change and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bismuth and the Department of Mines
The following letter, which has been addressed to the 'S. M. Herald,' will be read with interest by our Adelong friends, who are at present confronted with the bismuth difficulty:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Re-arrest of Weiberg, the Avoca Gold Robber
THE intelligence that the notorious robber of the bullion-room of the P. and O. Company's steamship Avoca had been recaptured was received with a…
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The activity shown by English capitalists to subscribe to the Now South Wales loan lately placed on the London money market will be recognised by the people of this colony as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alarming Accident in a Mine
AN accident of rather an exciting nature occurred on Friday afternoon (the Stawell Chronicle reports) at the Great Southern Mine, Garden Gully. In the…
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NOTHING could exceed the excitement with which telegrams, published in the Sydney Morning Herald's issues of the 17th and 18th June, were received…
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The following has been proclaimed a goldfield within the meaning and for the purposes of the Mining Act of 1874:—County of Clarendon, parish of Jun[?], area 320 acres. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Riots Among the Coal-miners. (Echo.)
OUR reporter, who went up to Newcastle with the military force on Monday night, found on arrival at Lambton that the disturbance had not been of so serious a character as it had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Dredging on the Clutha. (Chambers Journal.)
GABRIEL, a shepherd, tending his flocks on the billowy downs mid placid flats of Tuapeka, in Southern New Zealand— deputy-lord of a solitude seldom broken…
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The following passage, which is worthy of attention, appears in a recent letter from Mr. D. H. Osborne to the 'Otago Witness.' It is principally intended for New Zealand, but may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Snowball Copper Mine
The following descriptive account of the Snowball Copper Mine was written by Master Ernest Weekes, after a visit of inspection to the locality, and which, at our request, he has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Mining Meeting at Tarcutta
One of the most successful and enthusiastic mining meetings ever hold in this district was convened at the Town Hall on the evening of the 6th instant. The building was filled to its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrest of Coal Miners. Newcastle
At the Lambton Police Court, to-day, a miner named Wishart, charged with threatening one of the new arrivals named Franz, and another minor named Palmer, also…
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