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WHEAL-Johnson Tin Co.—At the half-yearly general meeting of shareholders held to-day, at Messrs. Hardie and German's offices, the directors' report and balance-sheet were unanimously adopted. Captain Woods was elected a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE report of a deputation from the Miners' Protection Society to the Minister for Mines was given in our last issue. The chief object the deputation (which consisted of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MR. E. WATERS, of Melbourne, has lately obtained a patent for some improvements in machinery for washing auriferous and stanniferous drifts, for concentrating sand or slime ores, and for separating…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →FOR centuries it has been known that in certain parts of the Indian Peninsula gold has existed, but hitherto the quantity of the precious metal to be found in any given locality bag not been ascertained. Certain streams have been…
Continued on Trove, page 405 →PARKES and CURRAJONG— The Gazette reports :—London : Mobb's machine is still idle from the wants of water. Nos 15 and 17 have each about 400 loads to grass, upon which the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE correspondent of the Auckland WEEKLY HERALD states that about 400 miners were on the ground anxiously awaiting the survey of the boundaries of the field as preliminary to the cessions of it by the natives…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →San Francisco, December 23,1874. [?] OUR friends in the East can hardly realiy [?] the excitement pervading our community, are [?] indeed the whole Pacific slope, over the new [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hon. John Lucas was born at Kingston, Sydney, on the 24th June, 1818. He was educated at Liverpool, and afterwards at Captain Beveridge's boarding school, Sydney. In early manhood he was an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Krohmann's G. M. Co.—Under date 24th March, the mining manager reports as follows:—In prospecting crosscut in the north shaft at the 392-feet level, we have driven 4 feet this week, making the distance in from the shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Galley Swamp reporter of the CARCOAR CHRONICLE writes: We are sadly in want of rain. The water now being [?] at the prospectory's battery is reduced to the consistence of [?]. Mr. Wren informs me that in…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Our township is gradually assuming proportions. We have now three public houses opened, and a fourth about to be erected. We have three general stores and two boot and shoe shops, we have three places where public worship is…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →PAKTON'S G. M. CO.—The mining manager reports as follows, under date 27th March:—"Star of Peace vein workings—Stoping at 300, 310, and 320 feet levels; 15 tons of stone raised, which looks payable. East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →STAR of Peace. G. M. Co.—Under date 30th March, the mining manager reports as follows:—"The main shaft is now down 17 feet below the 410-feet level; vein about 7 inches wide, payable stone. The vain in the stopes north…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. NELSON moved— "That in the opinion of this House. the duty gold is an unjust [?] a class [?] should be [?]. That the above [?] to his excellency the Governor. He desired, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOODRICH Mining Co.—The half-yearly meeting was held at the company's offices on Wednesday. Mr. M. Metcalfe in the chair, when the directors' report and balance-sheet were unanimously adopted. The profit and loss account…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Hon. John Lucas, Minister for Fines, has been closely engaged for several weeks put in preparing a new Mining Bill which, it is understood, will be less bulky then the present one. The new bill will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucknow Gold-roof Mining Co. and the Companies Act: The following claims were admitted at 8 per cent, interest from 9th of February last the date of winding up order and with 12s 6d for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VERY little is known of this substance in its metallic state, and it is not employed as such in the arts, and can only be obtained in a state of purity, in small quantities, by delicate operations…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An explosion of gas occurred in the Meir Hay pit, Longton, on February 2, erasing the death of two men and setting fire to the mine. There were fourteen men at work in the pit, and two of these…
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