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PEAK Downs Copper Co.—The Secretary reports: "Under date December 15th the mining captain of the P. D. C. M. Co. report—[?]I forward, below a statement of ores weighed and sampled last month. Tut work on company's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN out-of-the-way goldfield like Ournic does not present a very lively appearance about Christmas time. Holiday-making is the order of the day, and work is abandoned; so that, on the whole, Ournie, it may be said, is out of town…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Chinese, to whom so many inventions for which we take great credit have been familiar for ages, have long known the use of coal. The famous Venetian traveller, Marco [?]olo, says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A son of a respected townsman, Mr. J. Hill, aged fourteen years, was thrown from a horse yesterday, and died this morning. Nearly all the business places are partially closed in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"WE have frequently directed the attention of our readers to gold-mining as an important branch of national industry. The colony has been ransacked from one end to the other by…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →HILL END AND VICINITY.—The Observer of December 27, states that the improvement in Paxton's continues, and the claim is looking better every day. A small crushing at Petersen's battery from the first belt of veins in the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →HILL END AND VICINITY. — The Observer of December 27 states that the improvement in Paxton's continues, and the claim is looking better every day. A small crushing at Petersen's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the colliery known as Mario, at Seraing, Belgium, the Cockerill Society has an admirable arrangement for working the underground machinery. Standing in the engine house, with the shaft in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →OBJECTIONS on the part of the colliery masters and miners to leveral clauses In the Coal-Miners Regulation Bill now before Parliament, resulted in a conforence between the associated Colliery Masters of the Northern district and the officers and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Messrs. MacDonnell Brothers, 326, George street. have received the following telegram. yesterday, from clunes, Victoria, giving the result of 4 tons of auriferous pyrites sent to clunes for treatment from the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Our Tuena correspondent writes on December 27th: Owing to the Christmas holidays, work has been almost at a standstill during the past week. Several parties at the new rush at Lapstone Gully washed a few loads of dirt in the early…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The mining manager of Krohmann's Gold Mining Co. uner date 31st December, reprots as follows:—Owing to the Christmas holidays we have not done the usual amount of work. In the north sliaft we have simk 2 feet, making the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Share market opened on Monday with a marked absence of buyers. There is a large quantity of stone at grass at Hill End, bat owing to the holidays crushing is likely to be…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →PRIVATE telegrams from Auckland received via. Melbourne confirm the Press despatch, anuouncing that gold has been struck in the Tookey Co.s claim at the 200-feet level. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT Bristol, October 9, Mr. Thomas Halliday, president of the above association, there being a large attendance of delegatos present, delivered the following address…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The mining manager of the Vale of Clwydd Coal Company, Bowenfels, under dale December 31st, writes: "The small seam is not out through, so that the calculations of dropping on it at 60 feet was about correct, as the shaft is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE fall in the price of coal continues…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A committee has been formed, and subscriptions are being collected to got a professional report at to the feasibility of the line from hero to Wollongong. One committee meeting has been already held, having…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →PARRAMATTA RACES.—The settling night took place on Monday last, at host Hack's, white Horse Cellar (the Tattersair's of Parramatta), and wa in every respect a very pleasant meeting, sevral of the winners being present, besides a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN out-of-the-way goldfield like Ournie does not present a very lively appearance about Christmas time. Holiday-making is the order of the day, and work is abandoned; so that, on the whole, Ournie, it may be paid, is out of town…
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