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282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 15
The Newcastle Coal and Copper Company carry on their operations about two miles and a half from Newcastle. Some of their mines formerly belonged to the Messrs. Brown, others to Mr. Donaldson and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The quantities of gold received from the new diggings at the Snowy River, have not as yet suffered much diminution, notwithstanding that the winter has now almost completely set in. The weekly escort which arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The oldest of the mining proprietaries in this colony is the Australian Agricultural Company, called, by abbreviation, the A. A. Company. Although this corporation have engaged largely in other speculations…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT has been mentioned as a singular, if not a significant, circumstance, that all the representative members of the present Government, as well as the gentleman upon whose advice they took office, were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The coal mine at Tomago on the north side of the Hunter River, nearly opposite Hexham, was commenced about five years ago by Messrs. Gordon and Brown, but was worked with indifferent success until…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minmi mines, which are about six miles southward from Hexham, were commenced and for several years worked by Mr. Heales, but have recently been purchased by Messrs. A. and J. Brown, who formerly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE seems a prospect now of the Legislature taking the gold-fields and the interests of gold diggers into consideration, and placing fitting barriers to the influx of Chinese on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DIRECTING our course to the north-east, at the base of Mount Mutton ridge, we reach the dry channel of a creek. This stream, rising in a narrow but shallow valley of denudation, that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE more a practical observer examines the country surrounding the scene of mining operations at the head of the Uralla, the stronger will be his conviction that, instead of being exhausted, that gold-field has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONCLUDING our hasty survey of the formation of the country drianed by the Uralla, we find ourselves again in the roadside village to which it has given a neme; its five or six cottages nestling in a mass of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHOWY RIVER—The weekly escort arrived in Gentburn yesterday afternoon brirging 2542 ozs 13 dwts of gold and £822 cash, Of the gold. 2348 ozs 17 dwts 12 grs were from. Kiandra direct, and 193 czs 15 dwts 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.— I am glad the question of opening a road to the Kiandra Gold-fields, without delay, is about to form the subject of a public meeting. It is a question of vast importance to Sydney trade, that the shortest road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the long slope at the south-western termination of Mount Jones is a rude slab edifice, under a calico roof, sometimes used as a Roman Catholic chapel. In the vicinity of this building…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following report from Colonel[?]Freeling, R.E., on the subject of the Snowy River gold fields, was laid on the table of the House of Assembly of South Australia on the 15th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IRONBARK, May 20.—We were shewn to-day a cake of gold, weighing fifty-two ounces, the produce of seven tons of quartz, crushed by the Company's machinery at Stoney Creek, and taken from Mr. Colreavy's claim on the Beehive Reef. Mr. Colreavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE of the most dreadful catastrophes that ever occurred in the north of England took place on Friday afternoon, at Burradon Colliery, the property of Mr. Joshua Bower, of Leeds. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—I beg to forward you a letter, which I have received from Sir Roderick Murchison, in reply to a series of interesting articles which appeared in the Bendigo Advertiser at the end of last year upon the Geology of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UPON no single subject does a greater diversity of public sentiment prevail than upon that relating to the employment of Chinese miners within the State of California, the conditions of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL-general meeting of the shareholders of the Wentworth Gold-field Company, was held at the Company's office, Pilt-street, yesterday forenoon, "to considerimportant and urgent business connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL general meeting of the shareholders of the Ophor Copper Mining Company was held at the company's offices, Pitt-street, yesterday," for the purpose of winding-up the affairs of the company, and giving…
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