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A GREAT hardship has for some time existed in our mining districts, and especially on our goldfields, by reason of schemers and speculators being able to obtain early information in Sydney of notifications…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →LATE[?] PARTICULARS. AUCKLAND, S[?]ay.—Twelve more dead bodies have been [?]overed, and some others are likely to be obtained. Most of the men were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have no mining intelligence from Queensland this week. There is no news from New Zealand of importance relative to mining in files to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 311 →ON the 17th instant our correspondent at Back Creek writes as follows concerning the Barrington Gold-field:—"On Tuesday last the town was in full commotion, men running in all directions with pegs…
Continued on Trove, page 311 →SIR,—I notice in the published list of nuggets found in the colony you have omitted what has been got on the Gulf diggings, therefore I beg to hand you a list of what has come within my own knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →For some two years past several companies, consisting for the most part of Victorian mining speculators, have been engaged in carrying out works upon a very extensive scale, in the neighbourhood of Tumbarumba. It may be…
Continued on Trove, page 311 →A colliery explosion took place at the Raitangata Mine, Balclutha, Otago, to-day. A boy and a horse were blown from the entrance to the shaft and killed, and 40 miners who were working in the pit at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a visit to San Francisco, I had the pleasure of: meeting sonic of the gold and wheat kings of the great, and rich slate of: California. The history of their careers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A requisition has been signed calling upon D. Wilson. Esq., to convene a public meeting to learn the opinion of the Inhabitants as to what should be done with the building erected for the purposes of a hospital. It was dosed a few years since…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →GYMPIE, Monday.—77 tons of quartz from No. 8 South Lady Mary hare yielded 281oz 7dwt of melted gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not much additional information is to hand from the mining districts since our last summary. At the Boorook silver mines additional mnchincry is shortly to be placed on the ground. The leaseholders speak in glowing terms of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ADELONG, Thursday.—There is great commotion here amongst the persons who have applied for two new blocks under the Improvement Act. Thirty or forty persons have had notice that their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GYMPIE, Friday.—149 tons of stone from the North Glanmyre Co.'s claim returned 272oz of retorted gold. This is considered a capital yield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONG TUNNEL GOLD MINING CO., URALLA.—The mine manager, under date 24th instant, reports:—There is not much change in the tunnel since my previous report. The ground is still hard. Distance driven for the week, 5 feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence reached Newcastle to-day, of a serious colliery accident at Wallsend. A portion of the old workings situated under the hill, behind the colliery, fell in suddenly this morning. On visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HAVING made another visit to the Coolangolook goldfield, I wish again to state my opinion of this field, not expecting every one to take my views 5 my spectacles might betinted gold, but I think before many…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →ON the 24th, our correspondent at Barrington Back Creek writes:—"The Mining League had their usual meeting on Tuesday last, when after several correspondence were read, the secretary was authorised to…
Continued on Trove, page 351 →OUR latest reports from the various mining districts of the colony confirm what we said last week, that until the rainy season had fairly set in the goldfields of New South Wales would not resume their wonted…
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