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SIR, —This is essentially an age of progress: that progress is principaily due to the facilities afforded through the medium of the Press, for interchanging idess on matters affecting the general welfare. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of a most melancholy nature happened on Monday, 2nd November, at the Nut Grove Colliery, belonging to Mr. Radley about two miles from St. Helens. It would appear that the colliery is ventilated by two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE continued hot dry weather is having a very serious effect upon most of our gold-fields. Except in one or two rate localities, where the workings are what is termed wet diggings, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Emu CREEK GOLD FIELDS.—December 20—Whomsoever you meet here is suffering under some sort of ailment and I am no exception to that rule. During the last fortnight I went…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bantry, August 24.—The western portion of this county is as every one knows, exceedingly rich[?] its products. Like every other recourse of our country, abundantly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIANDRA.—The correspondent of the Gundagai Times writes:—"The Three-mile quartz reef in looking up, Last week they found in the prospecting claim a narrow leader, in which gold was plainly perceptible. I saw a piece from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following paragraph, relative to the test of auriferous quartz from the Bungonia reefs, is taken from the columns of the Southern Argus:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →We have frequently spoken of the importance to California of simplifying and [?]pening the reduction of rebellious o[?]es of the precious metals, and have called attention…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GUNDAGAI.—The Times of Saturday says:—As regards mining news in the Gundagai district we may state that claims on the Prophet's reef, Kimo, are generally promising very well. T. Field and party who lately, as we recorded,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE week ending Saturday last, the 9th instant, to which date our country advices reach, has been to some extent a holiday week, and miners have not yet got fairly to work after…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CARGO.—The correspondent of the Western Examiner writes to that journal:—The new rush in Long Gully, reported last week, has mude favourable progress since. Its upper termination has been traced into the old load…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ACCOUNTS from the different gold fields inform us that the miners are setting iu to work with renewed vigour after the spell they have enjoyed in keeping up the Christmas and New…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →JUNEE REEFS.—The value of these quarts reefs is at length attracting the attention of capitalists and others, principally from Grenfell. Since I last wrote to you, there has been a small…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A dreadful colliery explosion occurred at Hindley, near Wigan, on the morning of Thursday, November 26th, by which no fewer than sixty-one unfortunate beings instantly lost their lives. Before giving an account of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A dreadful colliery explosion occurred at innuj[?]y, near Wigan, on the morning of Thursday, November 26th, by which no fewer than sixty-one unfortunate beings instantaneously lost their lives It was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CARGO.—The correspondent of the Western Post writes:- Water is getting more and more scarce. Edinbore' used up for the time. Some half-a-dozen toms aro still washing on the Warrec Creek, but this must also soon fall if rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The directors now refer to this property mainly to state that they have deemed it prudent to write off at this balance a portion (£2000) of the amount expended in former mining operations upon it, leaving it as a subject for future consideration whether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fourteenth half-yearly meeting of the Bulli Coal Company was held at the Exchange, at 3 p.m. yesterday, Mr. G W. Allen in the chair, when the following report was read and adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →REPORT by the Directors of the Scottish Australian Mining Company (Limited) to the shareholders, at the half-yearly general meeting of the company, held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgatestreet, London, on Tuesday, 24th November, 1868…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE report of the Bulli Coal Company for the [?]ix months ending [?] ultimo, adopted at the half-yearly meeting held on Monday, 26th instant[?] shows that during the period mentioned, 34.831 tons of coal had been [?]ld from the company's mine, [?]…
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