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At a meeting of the Creswick Mining Disaster Relief Fund Committee to-day, a scheme for the formation of a National Mining Accident Fund was adopted. It was agreed that the fund be vested in the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Messrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. have the following telegraphic news to hand from Gympie:—"184 tons from 113 North Glanmire, crushed for yield of 288oz. gold." Mr. J. Morcombe roports, under date March 22, having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →My readers possibly may remember that the great Spanish Emperor once tried to make all the clocks go exactly alike. His success was equally as great as those who have attempted to lay down rules for…
Continued on Trove, page 550 →The miners at Coal Cliff are out on strike for an advance of 2d. per ton on the hewing rate. In the present prosperity of the coal trade it is to lie regretted that there should be any cause…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The manager of the Wesley Tin-mining Company reports the yield of ore for week ended 17th instant to ba 15 tone. Mr. A. P. Wood reports the yields of Victorian mines for…
Continued on Trove, page 550 →IN his lecture on Health, Professor Denton strongly advised all persons to keep cool. This is easier said than done. For instance, it is a matter of some difficulty for a bald-headed man who wishes to enjoy a nice quiet snooze in church to keep cool,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Under date of 9th March, Mr Slee, inspector of mines, furnishes a rather lengthy report to the Minister for Minos, of which the following is the substance: -- " This promising mine is located about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rowe and party have just finished crushing 70 tons of quartz, realising 74oz. 6dwt. gold, at the Energetic battery, Gully Swamp, from the ground known as Rowe's Paddock: their reef averages 2 feet wide. There are now…
Continued on Trove, page 559 →We come now to deal with the subject of classifying coal plante. Instead of dealing with a long array of divisions, in which the memory will be burdened but not much aided, I shall proceed by way of illustration…
Continued on Trove, page 534 →At a meeting of the Creewick Mining Disaster Belief Fund Committee to-day, a scheme for the formation of a National Mining Accident Fund was adopted. It was agreed that the fund be vested in the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 568 →The fact that 499 lives were sacrificed during the past year in colliery explosions (says the "Scotsman") shows how hazardous the miner's occupation still is, in spite of safety lamps and other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We have been shown seme fine specimens of quartz from the Amelia claim at Temora. The stone was obtained in the shaft on the western boundary immediately adjoining Lucas and Penman's well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TEMORA.—There is much excitement here regarding the Billy's Look-out rush; but it is noticeable that men in steady emyloyment do not seem disposed to shift and try the new field. Should it prove…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Temora "Star," in an extraordinary yesterday. says: Once more we are indebted to Mr. P. Gaffney for fuller particulars about the developoment of the new goldfield at Billy's Lookout, which we…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Private dispatches have been received of a valuable character with reference to the gold deposits in Alaska (Cal.) The information alluded to is of inch a character that, as soon as it becomes known,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday, March 15, a deputation representing the diggers on the Blind Creek, goldfields waited upon the district Warden, Mr. S. Robinson, in order to furnish certain information relating to that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →GAOL AFFAIRS.—In connection with the late inquiry into certain alleged disorganisation at the Albury gaol, which led to the removal of one of the warders to a prison in another part of the colony, it is rumoured that the fault…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The monthly escort took 770oz. 12dwt. 8gr. of gold; 71oz. of gold were brought to town, being the result of a fortnight's crushing at the Balmoral Company's ground, Mount M'Donald. At Tally Swamp, Digby and party crushed 15…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This copper mine is near Rockley. On Saturday, the 10th instant, nearly £2000 were paid in wages, and as usual after pay-day the place is in a frightful state of riot and disorder for days. Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Scatten's Flat, near Trunkey, Macleay and party have finished a crashing realising 34oz 3dwt gold. Mullins and party will start crashing this week, on 60 loads: their claim looks well. There are…
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