Gold Prospecting
BRISBANE, Monday.-The Government intend sending out a gold prospecting party to the sources of the Flinders, the Cape, and the Clarke Rivers. Mr. M'Clonnell, and experienced digger…
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Rich Gold Struck at Hill End
HILL END, Saturday.-Very rich gold has been struck in the Star of Peace, at 750ft level…
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The antagonism between some of the coal-mine proprietors of Newcastle and their employes, and the lock-out at the Lambton colliery, and demonstration of a decidedly violent character, led to proceedings on the part of the…
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The wet weather of the past month has greatly interfered with the mining industry, by the Hooding of the mines. The miners have thus been prevented from getting to work. This has occurred at the mines in the Braidwood district, as…
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We have had a week's rain, and the roads outside the town are very bad, especially on the Tumbarumba road. The weather took up on Saturday, and it is now delightfully fine…
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The GLEN INNES GURDIAN says Mr. Heydon, has shown us the sample of gold, the finding of which created such a furore here. The specimen is a very fine ono; and was, so Mr. Heydon says, obtained in Mr…
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The gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint during the week ending October 2 was 4827 oz. The coin issued during the same period amounted to 23,000 sovereigns…
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NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—The export of coal for the week has been 20,013 tons…
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To any one interested in the industrial progress of the colony and the development of its natural resources, a visit to the Joadja Kerosene Mine would prove highly interesting. The works are…
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The Australasia Coal Company's property has been sold privately to Mr. B. J. Fink for £8500. A supplement to the Government Gazette, published on Wednesday, contains two proclamations under the hand…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—The Government intend sending out a gold prospecting party to the sources of the Flinders, the Cape, and the Clarke Rivers. Mr. M' Clonnell, an experienced digger,…
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The tunnell at Bago has fallen in, and work has ceased. HILL END, SATURDAY. A quantity of rich gold specimens, from the deep…
Continued on Trove, page 573 →Fiction. Eustace Egremont. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Iii.—the Dumstan Gold-fields—queenstown—eustace Egremont to the Fore
New rushes have been so often described, and bear such a striking resemblance in their leading characteristics to each other, that it scans unnecessary to say anything farther about the Dunstan; but that being a very big rush indeed,…
Continued on Trove, page 543 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Adelong. September 29
The weather during the past week has been changeable, and a quautity of rain has fallen. The alluvial diggings have been stopped in consequence. The farmers are also complaining that they have too much rain. The roads in…
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MORE SUCCESS.—Our correspondent at Burrendong sends the following:—On Thursday and Friday last, Edwards and party, some of whom are from Mookerewa Creek diggings, a few miles from Ironbarks, succeeded in obtaining about an…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A new South Wales ironfounder named Denny, is in Melbourne with a new gold extractor, which miners predict will revolutionise gold-mining on fields thought to be…
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STAR OF PEACE G. M. Co.—Mining manager report October 1st, as follows:—"Star of Peace shaft, 765-feet level: Finished crushing from this level last Saturday, 70 tons for 174 oz. 0 dwts. 20 grs. retorted gold. This is the…
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WAGGA, Saturday.—Mr. J. Cowley Cooper, of Lake George, Queensland, has promised the Wagga Turf Club a subscription of 100 sovereigns to provide the Wagga Gold Cup for 1881…
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SLUICING COMPANY, Spring Creck, Beechworth.—The manager reports: " The contractors for the tunnel completed for the month of September 69 feet, making the total distance driven by R. G. Ford's…
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All accounts now agree as to the inutility of the artillery being kept any longer at the Newcastle coal mines. It is stated that there is no likelihood of any disagreement between the miners, and the presence…
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