Late Mining News
The M'Ivor River prospecting party tare Cooktown to-day, to make a road to the new field. A large number of diggers accompany them…
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Fatal Mining Accident
A fatal accident, whereby two men have lost their lives and another is expected to lose his, occurred on Saturday morning in the claim of the Britannia Quartz Company Ballarat East. The man who were…
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Through the courtesy of the Honourable the Minister for Mines, we are placed in possession of a copy of a letter bearing date Hargraves, 30th ultimo, from Mr. O'Brien, the mining registrar for the…
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The following letter has been handed to us by the Hon. Minister for Mines :— "Warden's Office, Windeyer, 23rd September, 1878. "Sir,—I have the honour to state that during my visit to…
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The following was the total output of coal from Newcastle for the week ending 27th. September:—22,219 tons, the distribution being—4353 tons to Sydney, 5852 to Melbourne, 6343 to New Zealand, 605 to Geelong, 235 to…
Continued on Trove, page 551 →The Wagga Gold Cup
This cup, the value of which is 100 sovereigns, was presented to the Murrumbidgee Turf Club by Mr. James Cochrane, of Widgiewa, and was won at the recent race meeting at Wagga by Mr. J. Silberberg with his brown horse…
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CARROLL AND BEARD'S G. M. Co. (LIMITED).— Mining manager telegraphs as follows:—"Crushed twenty-three tons of quartz, which yielded 23 oz. 13 dwts. 5 grs. gold."…
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The Minister for Mines has forwarded to us the following copy of an official letter just received by him:—"Mining Registrar's Office, Hargraves, "September 30, 1878…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines and Mining. Latest from Cooktown. Prospects at the M'lVOR River.—the Country Looking Magnificent. [By Electric Telegraph.]
COOKTOWN, Monday. —The Cooktown Herald publishes the following report from the M'lvor River prospecting party:—" We left Cooktown on August 13 for the M'Ivor River, via Williams's…
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COOKTOWN, Friday.—The cutter Prospect arrived from Port Moresby with eight passengers, including John and Alexander M'Call, Messrs. Dillon and Brown, members of the Colonist party,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Parramatta. September 30
An inquest was held by the District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) on Friday, touching the death of two children, named respectively Jacob Morgan Cantwell, aged two years and nine months, and Andrew Richard Cantwell, his brother,…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Gold Prospecting in New Guinea. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The Prospect has arrived from Port Moresby with 8 passengers, including some of the colonial party, who report that they had prospected the Manamana River and got nothing but colour. All prospecting had been…
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STAR OF PEACE G. M. Co.—Mining manager reports on 4th instant:—"Banked 400 oz. specimens from 260-feet level."…
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PARKES, Tuesday.—A good nugget of gold, fully 22oz, has been got on the old Caraway lead…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The most lamentable accident that ever occurred in this district took place yesterday evening at the Lambton Colliery, by which the manager, Mr. Thomas Seymour, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. The Colliery Accident
Newcastle, Wednesday.—After bearing the evidence of Mr. Short, Mr. Brurdley, sod the man at the whim, the inquest was adjourned until Friday, 10 enable the examiner of coal-fields to go down the abaft…
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Some rich specimons of gold quartz have within the past few days been discovered in the Star of Peace, and other claims at the Hill End gold-field; but the exact yield has yet to be ascertained. Fuller reports from the Brook's…
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STAR OF PEACE G. M. Co.—Mining manager reports as follows:—"In uprising on the blow in Hermann's at 260-feet level, have taken out vein south, and lodged 1100 oz. of specimens in bank. At 410-feet level, on same…
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Late on Tuesday evening imfor[?]ation reached Newcastle that a melancholy occurrence had taken place at the Lambton Colliery, about five miles from Newcastle, resulting in the death of the manager of that colliery, Mr. Thomas…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Government have decided to oppose the vote of £40,000 asked by the goldfields' members as a subsidy for mining companies. They consider that the state of the…
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