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On Sunday morning last the town of Lambton was thrown into a state of excitement by the news that Mrs. Hunter, of the Royal Hotel, had drowned herself in the ground tank at the rear of the hotel. It appears that Mrs. Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 350 →The following are extracts from an interesting report of the field, supplied to the Melbourne Argus:— "The rush to Temora Was occasioned by the original prospectors, Parker and party, who hold a block claim of…
Continued on Trove, page 377 →THINGS are looking up at Araluen. THE Parkes reefs are coming to the fore again. THE escort left Braidwood on Wednesday with 662oz 2dwts 12gr…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →An offer of £500 for a half-share in the Golden Gate claim, Temora, was refused. The owner wants £950. Over 1500 acres of tin selections have been taken up during the last two days on the water running from Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 378 →The Under-Secretary for Mines says that last year "minerals to the value of £2,085,456 11s, 8d, have been won," as the result of the twelvemonth's operations upon which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 369 →ADELONG, Wednesday.—The gold escort left Adelong this morning. The Bank of New South Wales sent G49oz 18dwt 13gr; the Commercial Bank 272oz 2dwt 11gr; Tumbarumba sent 305oz…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WHEN the steamer Victoria arrived on Monday [?] Cooktown, it was discovered, when a City Bank officer took delivery of a box supposed to contain 126[?] 16dwt 6gr of gold, that it was rather light, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A seam of coal, said to be 5ft thick, is about to be worked in the Clarence River district. One pound weight of nuggets was pickod out from a claim at Lower Temora…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THE information contained in this report may be justly set down as interesting, instructive, and important. Indeed, without its presence we might, for all that has been done by successive…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A rumour that good gold had been struck by John Seccombe and party inland from the prospectors' beach claim proved to be premature, and to have arisen from a report reaching Cobargo that the prospectors had improving…
Continued on Trove, page 350 →SICKNESS.—A few months since Dr. [?] commenced practice in Adelong. He married about two months since and brought his [?] to this town, who sickened and died, the effects of which preyed heavily upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SICKNESS—A few months since Dr. M'Master commenced practice in Adelong. He succeeded Dr. Kennedy and had an extensive connection. He murried about two mouths since and brought bis wife to this town, who…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →THE now lease of life winch has been given, to mining enterprise here is always spoken of as " a revival " by the good people of Ballarat. But every now and then the passion for speculating takes the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →"This looks sorious," said the Major. "He may havo been in the Ballarat riot, as a few men we both know hore have boen. But as to poor Wayse, who died of his wounds the nest day, after…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →NEWCASTLE, Monday,—At a meeting of the gentlemen appointed to arbitrate upon the disputed questions between the cool owners and miners in the Hunter River district. held last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following mining intelligence is from the Te[?]ord Telegraph of Wednesday:—"John M'Grath and party of four are driving each way, having bottomed at 40 feet. The washdirt is from 18…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All the miners and day-labourers engaged at the Bulli, Coal Cliff and Mount Pleasant coal mines have struck work and removed their tools from the mines owing to the notice of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is a retur[?] of tin ore received at Newcastle and Morpeth, week ending 14th August, 1880:-- Tamworth, 44 tons [?] The following is a return of copper received at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Palmerston correspondent of the Adelaide Observer writes under date of July 21 as follows:— The sensation was the robbery from the Southport postoffice of five parcels of gold which had come down by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A report has been sent in to the Minister of Mines, by Mr. E. A. Sharpe, Warden of Temora Gold-fields, which fives some interesting particulars in reference to the condition of affairs at Temora. The present population, the…
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