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SIR,—In the telegraphic news from Brisbane published by your morning contemporary, is a paragraph which may mislead the public. The Bertha, missionary schooner, brings no later news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADVICES have lately reached Liverpool from Captain H. H. Williams, reporting the burning of the British wooden barque Flora, while on a voyage from Glasgow for Bombay, with a cargo of coal. A brief report…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Bertha missionary schooner has arrived from' Cooktown. Her captain and crew (some of whom are old and experienced diggers) state that they accompanied Mr. Goldie, and express their full conviction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOKTOWN, Wednesday.—The Bertha, missionary schooner, arrived here on Saturday night, en route to Sydney, and those on board fully confirm Mr. Goldie's reports of the discovery of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GYMPIE, Wednesday.—There has been another fine crushing from the Lady Mey line. 130 tons from No. 8 yielded 648oz…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PAXTON'S G. M. Co.—The mine manager reports, under date 12th January, as follows:—"Since my last we have taken down the footwall ven on the workings known if Paxton's; the vein itself is very poor. There ara some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY afternoon about a hundred [?]miners, labourers and wa[?]men, met at the Swanwith two Necks Hotel, George-street, to consider the advisability of proceeding to New Guinea to search…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FULLY 100 persons met together yesterday afternoon at M'Master's, Swan-with-Two-Necks Hotel, to consider whether it would be advisable to go to New Guinea in search of gold, also,how persons proposing to go there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—It is to be hoped that the views of your correspondent M. C. E. as to the value of Illawarra coal are more correct than his comparison of the cost of the Newcastle port improvements with the probable cost of the Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—A paragraph in your telegraphic news from Brisbane in this morning's paper may misleal the public. The Bertha, missionary schconer, brings no later news from New Gulmen than I brought a fortnight ago. We left…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →KROHMANN'S G. M. Co.—Under date 16th January the mining manager reports as follows:—"The western corsscut at 500-feet level in Carrol and Beard's mine has been extended a further distance of 4 feet, marking the present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The net Victorian gold yield according to calculations is 792,833oz., showing a decrease on the previous year of 144,421oz. The number of miners' has decreased by over 3000, owing to the failing-off in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have not the advantage of having visited New Guinea or Northern Queensland, so as to have acquired a personal knowledge how the climate of those gold-bearing regions affects the health of Europeans; but during the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judging from the many favourable mining prospects which have presented themselves of late, This colony is doubtless on the eve of a gold-mining rerival. Numerous reports of a highly gratifying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR GOLD-MINING LEASES.—NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned, Lease has beenreturned to this Department, the lessees having failed to execute and take delivery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Triester Zeitung, commenting on the successful researches of Captain Richard Burton in regard to the explorations of the four-thousand-of-years-closed-up-gold-and-precions-stones-producing ports…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Gold in Now Guinea! Say, Munchausen, say, Why didst forget to note it in your day? Not yet the British flag waves on the coast, Nor is "New Guinea" yet colonial toast;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After nearly a week of arduous labour and painful suspense, the obstructions in No. 3 shaft were removed on October 27, and a thorough exploration of the entire working took place. Unhappily…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →The Illawarra Mercury states that owing to some matter in dispute between the drivers in connection with the Mount Pleasant Colliery and their employers, several of the former have been on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the beginning of the your increased activity has bean exhibited in mining affairs at Hill End, and the discovery of some splendid stone in the Star of Peace claim has also come most opportunely to stimulate the miners…
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