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Owing to the Christmas holidays there has not been much business done in the mining districts of the colony since our last summary. At the Back Creek diggings, which are regarded as only in their infancy, new buildings are going up…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELONG, Thursday.—The Hon. E. A. Baker was nominated to-day by Mr. W. M. Helton, and seconded by Mr. W. M. Love. There being no one else proposed, Mr. Baker was declared duly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STAR OF PEACE G. M. Co.—"Hill End, 30th December, 1878. Star of Peace North Shaft: Back stoping at 700 and underhand stoping at 710 and 720 feet levels. We have also started to drive south at 700-foot level. 10 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Sandhurst correspondent writes as follows:— The statistics for the past year of the amount of gold obtained in this district, dividends declared, and calls made, show conclusively that the mining resources of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR correspondent writes:—I made a trip to Coolangolook goldfields at Bullan Delab, Myall River; and, if this place should turn out as I expect it will, there is not another place in this country that will be…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Pastoral Times says,—There was a little excitement early on Sunday morning observable to those who were out of their beds, to watch a large escort, fully equipped, conveying over 3000 ounces of gold from the bank here to…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →A telegram from Lannceston, Hobart Town, states:—The last crushing of the Tasmania Company at Brandy Creek is [?]10 to[?] of quartz, which yielded 2065[?] of retorted gold, being an average of 4oz[?] 1dwt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to announcement in the local press a large and most enthusiastic meeting of miners and employees of Bulli, Mount Pleasant, and Mount Keira mines was held in Mr. M. Cowley's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday afternoon.—The meeting of miners and labourers, called together to protest against the introduction of Chinese labour, is being hold. Between two and three thousand people are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Through the court[?] of the hon. the Minister for Mines, we learn that Mr. Warden Brougham, of Barra[?], telegraphs that the gold reported in the last telegram was found at Bor[?] about nine months since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CHRISTMAS.—Whether it is the pantomimes in the Victorian metropolis, the many and varied bills of fare put forth by the caterers for public amusement in that city, or the low rate of excursion fares thither, it is not for me to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A BLIND MINER.—Some years since a young man named Parker met with an accident in one of the claims, by whiel he lost his sight, and he is totally blind. He followed for a few years the musioal profession, and is a splendid cornopian…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →THE frequency of fatal and other painful accidents on the principal goldfields of Victoria in connection with mining cages has arouied public attention, and evoked the aid of legislation. As heretofore observed,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →ADELONG, Thursday.—The Hon. E. A. Baker, Minister for Mines, was returned unopposed for the Southern Goldfields to-day. He was proposed by Mr. W. M. Hotten, and seconded by Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →GYMPIE, Saturday.—320 tons of stone from the Phoenix Company claim have yielded 421oz 7dwt of gold. GYMPIE, Saturday.—No gold has been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The nomination for the Southern Goldfields took place in the Court-house, Adelong, on the 2nd instant. The HonE. A. Baker, Esq., was proposed by Mr. W. M. Hotton, and seconded by Mr. W. Love. There was no opposition,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I see by yours of tie 2nd instant great rejoicing at the termination of this unfortunate misunderstanding between employers and employees, and would like to see other companies act with as good grace as the A.S.N. Company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There it no new phase to report in connection with the lock-out, except that the Sydney manager of the Bulli Company appears to have completely forgotten the small amount of manners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Bow-street Police Court, on November 16, Robert Bowman Elliston, formerly one of the chief officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, was charged on a warrant before Mr. Vaughan with having stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the report of the Department of Mines, Queens-land, for 1877, the Under Secretary (Mr. G. L. Lukin) says: " There has been an increased yield of gold on most of the principal quartz reefing fields,…
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