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Sir, -- From a long experience of mining in this colony, I most cordially endorse your article in Saturday's issue, December 10th, upon this subject. The mining laws are so complicated and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—There was a little more animation in connection with mining Shares on Monday. Great Cobar had bayers at 76s, sellers at 79s; Nymagee offered at 21s, would be taken at 20s 3d; Wesley…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →" THE Visitors " were then proposed by the Chairman. who called particular attention to the presence of Mr, Wesley, formerly of St. Just, who had just returned home after a succesaful experience among…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Since our last summary the only item of importance is the discovery of a splendid gold reef at Hanging Rock, near Nundle. Wonderfully rich specimens were obtained by the discoverer, and it is expected that the immediate district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. Warden Brown, writing to the Mining Department on the 14th instant, speaks very fabourably of the ground in the vicinity of the Hanging Rock. He reports that a miner named Joseph Ruziska had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another gold-bearing reef has been discovered in the Barmedman. This makes three reefs, all rich in gold, of great thickness in this claim. 72 loads of tailings from the upper town realized 12dwt. to the load…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The managers report;--Nymagee Copper Milling Company (Limited), 15th December.--Barton's Shaft: During the last month the north end in the 40 fathom level has been driven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following reports of Royzicka's claim at Hanging Rock have been received by the Department of Mines :--"Warden's Office, Nundle, Dec. 14, 1881. Sir,--Having heard that a miner was obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The machinery at No. 8 Deeplead Sydney Company started on Saturday. The formal opening of the works trades place after the holidays. The case of Harris v. Lucas came up again before the warden to-day. The banks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, December 19.—A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place at Bolton. It is supposed that not less than 180 persons have lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following telegram has been received from the managing director at Charters Towers by the legal manager of the Victory Gold Mining Co. in Sydney:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forty deaths occurred by an explosion which took place to-day at Alram Colliery, in Wigan, Lancashire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An explosion occurred to-day, at the Alram Colliery, Wigan, in Lancashire. A large number of men were working in the mine at the time of the accident,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Manager of the A. A. Company's Colliery intends reducing the number of hands employed there from the end of the present year. Upwards of 50 have received the usual 14 days' notice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This evening an explosion occurred in the Abram Colliery, at Wigan, Lancashire. A large number of men were working in the pit at the time of the accident, and there are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A local company has been formed of 20,000 shares at 6s. each in penny calls to work the Shamrock and Euroka reefs, Upper Temora Amalgamated, the intention being to sink 500 or 600 feet if necessary. The company is to be registered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ATTTENTION is hereby called to Regulation 41, under the abovenamed Act, by which every owner of Horses, Cattle, or Sheep (whatever the number may be) is required to deliver or forward to the Inspector of Stock for his district, between the 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a meeting of the Newcastle Coal Company's miners at the Glebe, on Monday evening, the question of the back shift was the principal topic of discussion. It had been resolved at a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Lyell and Cowan, writing to the Age, refute the statements made by a miner to the Victorian Mining Department disparaging the richness and duration of Mount M'Donald gold-field, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lefroy, the murderer of Mr. Gold on the Brighton Railway, as our readers well know, was recently tried-and hanged, and the circumstances of the dark deed were so full of horror that…
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