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Resumption of the adjourned debate on the motion of Mr. Beyers,—"1. That in the opinion of this House, the regulations relating to gold and mining leases should at once be amended, so as to reduce the maximum area to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →Last weak we published a letter showing some of the disabilities under which tin-miners laboured here. We have received the following communication from a gold-miner, which shows that there are also complaints on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →Mining matters in this place are steadily improving, and the quartz crashed of late has given very satisfactory yields to the shareholders. I took a trip to Cobark, which is via…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →The gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint during the week ending June 26 was 3368-71 oz. The coin imped during the same period amounted tn 15,000 sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →I HAVE nothing startling to mention this week. One or two claims have been taken up, and several abandoned. Some prospectors gave notice that they intended applying for a prospecting area, distant…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →PROFESSOR Williamson, of Owens College, Manchester, recently gave a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute, Hanley, on the above subject. The Professor divided his lecture into three…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →LONG TUNNEL G. M. Co.—Mining manager's report on operations for fortnight ended June 23:—"We have made rather slow progress in driving during the past fortnight, as the ground ts still very hard, in fact, the bardest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several prospecting areas have been applied for [?]uring the past week. The Curragong Gold-mining Company sent sample of stone through Mr. Slee, Mine Inspector, for assay; and…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →WE are informed that the Band and Albion jumping case has been dismissed with costs; subject to a special case for the Supreme Court as to form of summons. The following reserve for gold-mining, purposes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →The petition of 327 gold-miners on the Barrington gold-field presented to the Legislative Assembly for the abolition of the export duty on gold alleges:— "1. That the retention of an export duty in contrary to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE rush to this placo is quietly subsiding (says the BURRANGONG ARGUS), and bids fair to be are long mere matter of history. On the fancy line there are 20 shafts filled up and six claims at work, and pf these…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The party prospecting the Bald Hill Gully (says the GRENFELL RECORD) have not yet reached the bottom. Yesterday morning they were down about 210ft, with satisfactory indications. Upwards of 100 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Several prospecting areas have been applied for during the past week. The Currajong Gold Mining Company have sent a sample of stone, through Mr. Slee, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MINING at Sandhurst, the quartzpolis of Yicfcoria, is at present in an abnormal condition, having deviated woefully from the fixed state of prosperity that marked the period between 1872 and 1876. But there…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →WEATHER.—During the past week the weather has been splendid, warm sunny days and sharp frosts at night; about two miles cast of the town there has been ice an Inch thick. The grass looks well everywhere…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →June 24. WEATHER.—During the past week the weather has been tow miles cast of the town there has been ice an inch thick. The grass looks well everywhere…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Sir,—After five or six weeks' absence from Sydney, on my return I notiood some reference to H. Copeland, Esq., member for the Northern Goldfields, in correspondence dated Back Creck, May 12, published in…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →MINING.—The machinery in connection with the Parkes Quartz Crushing Company is now rapidly being erected, and it is expected that within less than two months the stampers will be set in motion. It is believed that this will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALL the claims on both the right and left hand branches of the creek are being worked, but not anything like so fully for efficiently as they ought to be. The reef on the right hand branch appears…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifteen parties, (says the BURRANGONG ARGUE July 2nd), representing thirty men, are all who are at present at work in the police paddock. Gray and party have cut out the lead on which they sunk, as…
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