Poetry. Better Than Gold
Better than grandour, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousandfold, Is a healthy body and a mind at case, And simple pleasures that always please…
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Mining & the mines, 1884
21 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Chats with Coal-miners
"Esoapes? Yes, sir; I've, had one or two near shaves; and I don't suppose there's a man on the colliery but what could say the same…
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MR Warden Wyman Brown reports to the Mines Department:—"During my short visit at Silverton the excitement was something intense. New…
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Our readers will doubtless be glad to road the accompanying official report from Mr. Normal Taylor on the prospects of the now coal mine. We have to thank Mr. M'Lean,…
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Only a dead Forget me not He gave one happy hour, When he said " good-bye " at the garden gate. Only a faded flower…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nerrigundah Division, Southern Goldfields, County of Dampier its gold and other minerals
NEARLY 30 years ago the late Rev. W. B. Clarke, F.G.S., during a flying survey, reported to the Government the existence of gold, and the probability of its being…
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A DEPUTAAION consisting of Mr. Hamphory M.L.Dr. Tarrant M.L.A., Mr. Groen mayor of the municipallity of Nowra, and Mr. Monaghan, Mayor of Shoallhaven, waited upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warden's Court. Southern Mining District, Nowra. (Before Mr. Warden W. Lovegrove.)
Re T. Galbraith'a application for suspension of labour conditions. Thos. Galbraith deposed: I apply for suspension of labour conditions on my claim, on the ground of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miscellaneous. Set Your Foot With Mine, John. I.
SET your foot with mine, John, Let us step together; If the road be good or bad, Fine or stormy weather,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Silver Mines in the Barrier Ranges
ON Saturday Mr. J. P. Garvan, M. P., returned to Sydney, after a three weeks' trip to Silverton and a thorough investigation of the now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Leibius on Gold
THE general monthly meeting of the above society was hold last evening, at the Society's rooms, Elizabeth-street, for the transaction of general business. Mr. H. C. Russell B.A.,…
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.—Lavatier. A person who tells you the faults of others…
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A gold mine has been opened at the [?] Hole Hill, Kiama. Some quartz diamond from the vicinity realised severely [?] per ton. The [?] has been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold in Aucient Times
GOLD was in excess in ancient times, and mostly taken from the rivers in Asia. The fables of Pactelus, of the golden fleece of the Argonauts, of the gold from Ophir, the history…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine-d what you're at
The Barrier Ranges promise to be a throw in for our Collins street brokers shortly. We wish to draw intending investors' notice to the three degrees of mining speculation.'—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fascination of the Gold Mines
AN old forty-niner says of gold hunting:— "It's the fascination of it. Lor' man, when you've struck it pretty rich and can see yor gold right in front of you; when you're piling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Efficiency of Coal
A FOUND of averaged coal develops, with perfect combustion, 12,000 units of heat, which, multiplied by 772, the mechanical equivalent in units of work of one unit of heat, equals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Dead Mining Town
THERE is in Victoria a town of ruined houses —Matlock. Its life began in 1864, with a rush of diggers. The last inhabitant left in 1879. In the fifteen years Matlock had found a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Countrywoman of Mine
Handsome? I hardly know. Her profile's fine— Delightful, intellectual, aquiline. Her keen eyes light it— keen, yet often kind;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →My Coal-Black Beard
I do not recall a greater surprise than when one evening, on the grand star of the Grand Hotel at Pumpington-on-Sea, where even the guests feel grand, I encountered that…
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