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SIR,—According to the report of Warden Dalton, at Parkes, in the issue of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL of the 20th ultimo, he has reproached the mining community with want of scientific information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We learn from the HILL EXD TIMES that the following work was done at the batteries last week:— Enterprise.—Dragon, 145 tons, 86 ozs 13 dwts; Regan and party (Macquarie) lh tons, 13 ozs 8 dwts…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →SIR,—In discussing the new Mining Bill, Mr. D. C. Browne, member of the Mining Board, moved the following resolution: "That the system of leasing auriferous lands is an unwise policy, and detrimental to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →PUBLIC SCHOOL.—These of our readers who reside in this district will be pleased to learn what success attended the university examinations at Gunning. Eight candidates, five of whom were male children, from ten years old and upwards, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STAR of Peace G. M. Co.—Under date 1st January the mining manager reports as follows:—"The v[?]in in the south stope, at the 480-feet level, is small and poor. At this level north the vein is 9 inches wide, and producing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We were visited by one or two good [?] December, which lightened the atmosphere considerably, but I doubt if it added to any of the water[?]les in the neighbournosd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Co-operative Colliery Company's pit at Wallsend is burning. A wall of coal caught fire from the ventilating furnace below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, December 7.—The great explosion at the Swaithead colliery is even more fatal and disastrous than was at first anticipated. The work of recovering bodies is still progressing. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE extraordinary depression that has come over gold mining in Victoria; the withdrawal of confidence in the mines as an investment by capitalists; the disappearance of speculators and dealers in scrip from…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE extraordinary depression that has come over gold mining in Victoria; the withdrawal of confidence in the mines as en investment by capitalist; the disappparance of speculator and dealers in scrip from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following regulations, made, by the "Mining Board having been approved by his His Excellency the Governor and thc Executive Council, are published for general information…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE following regulation, made by the Mining Board having been approved by his His Excellency the Governor and the Executive' Council, are published for general information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report received at the Mines' office, from Mr. Warden Selheim, of the Palmer gold-field, for the month of October, contains much interesting information, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →94. Definition.—The words "to drain" shall mean the removal of water out or from any claim or any land held under any gold-mining lease, by any means or applince whatsoever; the word "leasehold" shall mean the area of land held…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mining is decidedly looking up throughout the entire district of Beechworth (says the BORDER TIMES), tho returns of the year showing a steady yield of gold. There are also no less than three "Prospecting…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The fire reported in our telegram of Thursday as having broken out in the Co-operative Colliery, Wallsend, was, according to the NEWCASTLE PILOT (from which we quote). discovered early on Thursday morning on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN other columns wo publish a now set of Mining Regutions, winch, in a few important particulars, differ from those passed in December, 1874. (1.) These regulations are mode to apply not only to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →PUBLIC MEETING.—A very large and influential public meeting took place on Tuesday night last, at the Court-house convened by the Mayor on receiving a requisition from several of the inhabitants, for the purpose of adopting a petition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A singular mine accident is thus reported in the York's Peninsula Advertiser, of 21st December:—At the Moontamine, on Friday evening, four miners—Messrs. Bull,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PUBLIC MEETING.—A very large and influential public meeting took place on Tuesday night last, at the Court-house, convened by the Mayor en receiving a requisition from several of the inhabitants, for the purpose of adopting a petition…
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