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HILL END AND VICINITY.—In Saturday's Observer it is reported that Carroll and Beard's have put through 22¼ tons, realising the splendid returns of 1720 ounces. Rapp's have commenced driving, and some eight feet of work is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The half yearly general meeting of the sharcholders of the Cornucopia Gold Mining Company was held at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, on Tuesday, February 4th, when a progress report was read, and, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME twelve or fifteen years since, a party of men, in their search for gold amongst the King Parret Creek ranges, within about a dozen miles of Seymour, came across a vein of what they believed at the time a slaty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE largest demand for shares to-day was for Krohmans, which advanced from 65s. to 68s. 3d., and were held at close for 69s. 6d. Beyers and Holtermans were not so firm; sales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. P. M'Alister, who has taken up a large quantity of ground at Gunners Dam, near Wellington, brought to Sydney about 15 cwt. of the stone for testing at Mr. C. Watts. We have before us the result, which yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CURRAJONG.—It is noted by the correspondent of the Forbes Times of Saturday that the excitement consequent on the rushes has in some measure subsided. The prospectors at the ground near the Ben Nevis have bottomed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE holidays are over, and work is being resumed in all the claims. Only one lot of stone has been crushed since my last which yielded at the rate of 4oz. 2 dwts. per ton. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mining manager of Jeffree's. Rose of England Gold Mining Company (Limitad) reports on the 8th instant as fellows:—The work has progressed with the new contractors far better than was anticipated; they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RETURN showing the quantity and value of gold received by escort from the several gold-fields of the colony in the year 1872, and the comparative quality and value of the gold received from each of such gold-fields, as assayed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have repeatedly called attention to the injustice done to the gold-producing interests of this colony by the neglect of the Government to procure complete statistics of the yields of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining manager of the Cornucopia Gold Mining Company reports—The shaft down 77 foot, the rock is much easier got out this weak than at any time previous. The Yankees are driving a level towards our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SELLERS of shares find that it is daily becoming more difficult to dispose of any other description than those of dividend-paying companies. There is plenty of money offering for investment where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Turf Club has voted 250 sovs, for the Albury Cup, 1874. There is to be a sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each, entrance free. The second horse to recede 50, and the third horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Morning Star tunnel (says the Bendock correspondent of the Bombala Time) is rapidly going in, over 300 feet, and has had some very hard ground to contend with. The Come Love reef is taken up as abandoned property. I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON no occasion since the mining fever set in here has there been more excitement about gold shares than there was to-day. Krohman was heard of in all the haunts of mining speculators,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The manager of the Reform Copper Company, Buckinbah, reports, February 6th:—"We have struck a patch of ore in the lode equal to anything in the district. There it are scattered all through the lode. I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past week we have been nearly at a stand-still, only one company being in full work, viz., the Rising Sun, which is worked in a proper and workmanlike way; and I only wish our other companies would take up the example the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The escort takes down 789oz 16dwt gold, and £600 cash. A rush has taken place this morning to diamond mines at Reedy Creek, four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The export of coal from Newcastle for the week ending February 7th is only from the Lambton Colliery, and is 5565 tons—892 tons to Sydney, 3069 to Melbourne, and 1604 to San Francisco. The Anvil Creek Colliery has…
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