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THE completion, and ceremony of starting the powerful pumping machinery erected in the Log Paddocks, a rich gold working on private property about six miles from Mudgee, is an event of more than passing…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →CADET CORPS.—The youthful members of the above corps of the Sydney and Parramatta schools who won prizes at the late contest held hero last month, wore presented with the same on Monday night ut the public school north, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Hodgl[?]son M[?]g News of the 19th May says:—To date 5990 1/2 tons of quartz have been reduced on the Hodgkinson for a total yield of 16,300oz 14dwt 18gr of smelted gold. This is exclusive of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KROHMANN'S G. M. CO.—Under date June 6, the mining manager reports as follows:—"The winze at 694-feet level has been sunk to a further depth of 4 feet this week, making the present depth of winze 7 feet from north drive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following report has been handed us from the Mining Department:—"The Under Secretary for Mines." Sir,—I have the honour to inform you that I have visited some of the gold workings near Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a copy of the notice which the directors of the Wallaroo Mines, South Australia, have issued to the workmen:— "It is with much regret that the announcement is made to the workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT will doubtless be a surprise to many of your readers, to learn that the report of payable gold having been struck at a locality in the auriferous district of Hargraves and Maitland Bar has proved to be a completer hoax. The reputation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The debate which took place on tins bill in the Legislative Council on the 6th instant, Mr. Gordon is reported to hive said:—"Whether the amount, £20,000 or £10,000, it was a most legitimate claim on the persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Mudgee railway meeting on Tuesday evening Mr. Rouse stated that in a week or two several thousand acres of non-auriferous lands will be thrown open for conditional purchase under Sec 14 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Registrar telegraphs the following particulars confirmatory of the report from our correspondent relative to the new rush near Gulgong:—Payable gold is reported to have been struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Since our legislators are paying such minute attention to small increases in official salaries, it is to be hoped they will make a determined stand when the estimate for the Mining Department come on for consideration. When,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PAX[?]ON'S G.M. Co.—The mine manager reports, under date June 9, as follows:—"Fuve feet have been sunk this week, and the vein broken down. It looks very poor, and [?] inches in thickness; total depth, 19 feet. The stopes, 33 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday morning an accident happened at the North Old Chum Company's claim, on the Ironbark line of reef, resulting in the instantaneous death of one man and the injury of another. The two men,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the arrival of the Rotorua we have Auckland files to the 6th instant. The news of the mining operations on the various fields is very satisfactory. The following indicate the general character of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The accounts of recent gold discoveries and the development of various workings in all parts of the colonies indicate a revival of mining. The GOULBURN HERALD gives further particulars of the reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mine manager reports, Under date June [?], a[?] follows:—"5 feet nave teen sunk this week, and the rein broken down. It looks very poor, and if 4 feet in thickness; total depth, 19 feet. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following Reports of the Geological Surveyor and Inspector of Coal Mines, as to the probable depth at which workable coal would obtained in the neighbourhood of Sydney, have been printed by order of the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BEYERS and Ho[?]termann's G. M. Co.—Under date 12th June, the [?]ning manager reports, reports as follows:—"The winze shaft ebing put down on the voin 47 feet east of Paxton's easy vei[?] has been deepened 3 feet since my last,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An apparently new quartz reef was accidently discovered to-day by Charles Bell, near Jackson's tannery, on the slope of Magazine Hill. The stone shows gold freely. Several claims have been taken up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In your issue of to-day "Economist" attempts to show why the Mining Department should not be maintained, and morder to do so he makes statements which are not only not true, but which are evidently so wide of the…
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