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ADELAIDE, Tuesday,---The Commissioner of Public Works has received tenders for the supply of 26,000 tons of coal. Messrs Howard Smith and Co. are the lowest tenderers for Port Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—A letter appeared a short time since in your columns tracing the present depression to the non-dividend paying of the present mining industry, and attributing the cause, in a great degree, to the expensive management in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the Warrnambool Coal Company was held on Saturday to receive the report of the mining manager. The report said that the seam, which continues about 3ft in thickness, improves as it is opened…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Acting upon a resolution passed lately, numbers of colliers have resumed work at the collieries of Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co., at Thorncliffe, on the terms demanded by the employers, namely, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART, Thursday.—Messrs. Kerrigan and Hickson arrived at Launceston on Monday, with 17oz of gold, obtained from a claim belonging to them, in a reef, about two and a half miles from Victoria. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Great consternation is being caused here by the exodus of Wallaroo miners, in spite of the efforts of the Government to retain them in this colony by furnishing relief works at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the meeting of the Sandhurst Mining Board on Monday a motion was carried, "That the Minister of Mines be requested to reduce the amount of money to be deposited with the warden upon objections…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Avoca the New North Homebush Co. [?] the fortnight extended the reef drive 89ft [?] the total from No. 2 jump-up 335ft. They bored up every 40ft, the reef dipping slowly. The yield was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.---a miners' delegate meeting was held to-day, when 14 lodges were represented, and the district officers wer[?] sls[?] present. A communication was re[?]d from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A trial crushing of 14 tons of quartz from Dodd and Hogan's reef, Swipe's Hill, near Little River, has just been completed with very satisfactory results. The exact yield has not transpired, The propreitors of the Day Dawn reef…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SOUTHPORT, Friday.—Nearly 32oz of gold were brought down country this week. Beatson's claim sent a large cake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There arrived in New York the other day twenty-five young women from Hungary, who came to be wives for that number of young miners at Mauch Chunk. They had never seen their prospective…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MORUYA, Friday.—A cake of retorted gold, weighing 123oz, being the largest ever received from the Dromedary diggings, was deposited in the local branch of the Bask of New South Wales by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fold escort to-day took from the Commercial Bank 362oz. of gold and 330oz. from Brown's Creek. BARMEDMAN, THURSDAY. A parcel of 20 tons of stone crushed from the No. 2 North…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TENDER'S will be received at this Office until 4 o'clock p.m. on FRIDAY, the 7th August, from persons willing to contract for the Erection of New Pubilc Offices at Brisbane. Tenders to be endorsed "New Public Offices, Brisbane."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The object of the invention herewith illustrated is to lesson the cost of transportation of ore, coal, &c., by utilising part of the power of the hoisting car for operating a surface car. On a shaft journaled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Your correspondent, "A. Gardiner," could not have noticed a paragraph in a reoent issue of the T. AND C. from your Melbourne correspondent [?] "The Temperature in Mines," or he would not…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Company promoters are ready to give fancy prices for "nuggety" specimens saved from the early workings of celebrated claims. It is wonderful how the exhibition of suoh specimens assists the floating of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The escort left Mount M'Donald on Monday with, a total for the mouth of 544oz 15dwt 9gr of gold. The following are the different, crushings :—Adelong Company, 10 tons for 51oz 4dwt; Butcher and Co., 12 tond for 55oz. 4dwt 18gr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Victorian Minister of Mines has received from Mr. T. B. Trezise, inspector for the Maryboreugh (V.) district, a special report on the recent alleged flooding at the Golden Stream Company's claim…
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