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A PRELIMINARY meeting of miners and capitalists for the purpose of considering the advisability of inaugurating an association for the better-protection and development of general mining in New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AFTER thirty-three years of uninterrupted labour the great undertaking of the Rothschonberger water adit is so far completed as to admit of its use. The method of draining the Freiberg mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.—The usual fortnightly meeting of the above council took place on Monday. There were 18 notices of motion on the business paper, and only six were dealt with, there being no quorum present to finish the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →PAXTON's Gold Mining Company (Limited).—The mine manager reports under date November 24, as follows:— "During the week we have been extending the drives mentioned in my last—the one going south has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eighteen years have passed since the world of science was startled by the announcement that iron and other metals had been discovered in the sun. A change Juts come over the educated world…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BEYERS and Holtermann's G. M. Co.—Under date 27th November the mining manager reports as follows:— "Since my last report of the 20th instant, we have driven five feet alongside of the fourteen-inch vein in the west…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →c hear (says the Gulgong Mail), that a lease has been taken up of the Red Lead, near Home Rule, and that a company, with a considerable portion of Sydney capital has been formed, or is in process of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the past ten days (says the CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN) no less than eleven loads of copper have arrived in Bourke, representing a little over 50 tons. There are still ten loads to arrive, representing 40…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A new gold-bearing reef has been discovered in the vicinity of Moonanbrook, in Orchard and Co.'s claim. Specimens of extremely rich quartz, taken out at various depths from the surface to 20 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The colliery explosions at the Blantyre pit were accompanied by the most painful scenes. The knocking of the imprisoned men was heard, but nothing could be done for them, as the foul…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. JACOB was not allowed to enter offi[?] without a contested election, for Mr. David Buchanan, having been requested to oppose him, became a candidate. The whole affair…
Continued on Trove, page 688 →REPORTED GOLD DISCOVERY AT NEW GUINEA.— A somewhat starting telegram has been received by us (Te[?]ville Herald) from Coo[?]town in reference to the precious metal, gold. It is to the effect that a craft was…
Continued on Trove, page 684 →Messrs. Leroy W. Fairchild and Co., of New York, who exhibited some of thier choice manufacturers at the last International Exhibition in Sydney, have sent out to Messrs. Towns and Co., of this city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last the Baptist Sunday school children with their minister (Mr. Allen), accompanied by their relatives and friends from Sydney, held their annual picnic in our Domain, and all was passing off as merrily as…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →What appears at present to he a valuable discovery has just been made (writes the GRELONG ADVERTISTS) on the Glen Derrick estate, now owned and occupied by Mr. John Clinton, but formerly the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regarding that marvelious little instrument the telephone, to which we referred in asubleader on Monday last, we learn from the BENDIGO ADVERTISER that Mr. Thureau has prepared plans…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following report upon the Ema Creek, Tyogong, and Burrangong Gold-fields, forwarded to the Department of Mines, has been banded to us for publication;— Grenfell, 1st December, 1877…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday, Oct. 22, an explosion, perhaps the most disastrous in the history of coal-mining in Scotland, occurred at the village of High Blantyre, about eight miles from Glasgow, on the old road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BEXERS and Holterman's G. M. Co.—Under date 4th December, the mining manager reporfs as follows:— "Work continues in the mine, and similar operations are, being carried on as spoken of in my former report. I have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[This message was inexplicably delayed in the Sydney office till to-day.—Eu. Evening News]. A serious accident occurred in the Aurelia claim, at Gympie, on Monday. The particulars to hand…
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