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The Chinese are returning in large numbers from tho alluvial rush 30 miles east of the Union field. They Bay that, with the exception of a few parties, they cannot make "tucker." The colour is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Official telegrams are announced from Adelaide, stating that the Government have received a telegram from the Northern Territory, stating Warden Nash reports the 'discovery of an alluvial goldfield by…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →CROPS, &C.—The hay is pretty well all in, and in most places the crop has been heavy. The fine weather prevailing has given every facility to the farmers to save all they had. A good deal of damage has been done in patches here…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three bars of refined gold weighing 56oz. arrived here last night, being the result of the first crushing from the Eleanor gold mine. The return is about 1oz. per ton for the greater portion of the stone, and ½oz. per ton for the balance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great Extended Gold-mining Company, Limited.--The mining manager, under date 12th January, reports:--"I have completed rise and passes to the west. The drive is in 140 feet west of shaft. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kawakawa correspondent of the Auckland Evening Star telegraphed to that journal on the 5th instant as follows:--The Norther Luminary, in a second edition says:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Burrangong Gold-mining Company washed out 14oz. of gold on Saturday. They are now opening cross drives; the gold is showing freely. Mr. Slee, the Mining Inspector, is on an official visit to the district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister for Mines has received a telegram from the foreman of drills, at Grafton, stating that he had come upon coal, and asking whether he should proceed with the auger then in use, or wait to test it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining manager of the New Reform G. M. Company, Limited, Lucknow, reports under data January 11,1884: "I am again in full awing, having overhauled the whole and effected repairs to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Ajax United, sellers 1s; Band and Albion, buyers 27s, sellers 28s; Black Horse United, buyers 20s, sellers 40s; Cornish Daylesford, buyers 80s, sellers 90s; Egerton's, sellers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three strong horse teams heavily laden with mundic, from Major's Creek, have just gone through the town for Sydney, via Tarago. The claim from which it was taken produces unlimited quantities. This ore gives a high…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The mining manager of the Nymagee Copper-mining Company, Limited, reports for month ending 5th January as follows:—Barton's Shaft: Barton's shaft has been sunk a further depth of 6 feet 6 inches, making in all 80 feet 6…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In response to an application from the Town Council of Grafton for the use of a water-auger, a party under Mr Samuel Holmes, the foreman, was despatched to the place with an auger some time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Europeans have returned from the now rush. They report unfavourably of the [?]. It is [?] for [?] to come to the [?] until the Government has promised to [?] pacific works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Mount M'Donald most of the batteries are under repair. Since the holidays the Oliver Freehold Gold-mining Company have started crushing on stone; there are several tribu[?]aries in their lease. Most of the sluicing claims in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Wednesday, 9th instant, Mr. W. B. Christie delivered an interesting lecture on "Mining" to larrge audience, at the School of Arts, in connection with the Technical College. The lecturer traced the history of mining from…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Three bars of refined gold weighing 56oz. arrived here last night, being the result of the first crushing from the Eleanor gold mice. The return is about loz. per ton for the greater portion of the stone, and ½oz. per ton for the balance…
Continued on Trove, page 117 →LONDON, January l8.—Gold to the value of a quarter of a million sterling has been withdrawn from the Bank of England for exportation to Australia. The DAILY NEWS, in commenting on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Royal Society of New South Wales offer a Erize of £25 aud the medal of the Association for the est communication on "The Origin and Mode of Occurrence of Gold-bearing Veins, and of the…
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