Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Special to CORRESPONDENTS.—We are now revising the lists of country correspondents, and ask that all letters sent bear the name in full of each correspondent. The signature is for editorial guidance only. COOPERNOOK. June 22
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 June 1885 · page 15
IMPROVEMENTS.âOne of the greatest improvements visible in Coopernook is the good state of the roads in all weathers. They have lately been Macadamised and gravelled; and there are large road…
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Evening News · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 4
HOBART, Monday.—The Tasmanian Gold-mining Co.'s amalgam gave 238oz of retorted gold, or an average of a little tinder loz 5dwt 14gr per ton. A. dividend of 4s per share has been declared, and the sum of £300 placed to the reserve fund. The Florence…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 8
From the Pinnacle Group Silver-mining Company Limited, Messrs. Gresley Lugin and Co. report having received advice, dated June 26:—"Awaiting arrival of lead—everything else ready—and upon its arrival the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Medical Attendants. NEWCASTLE
Evening News · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 6
A meeting of the friends and supporters of Drs. John Harris and Stapleton took place last evening. There was a very good attendance. The business principally consisted of devising the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining News. Sandhurst Market
Evening News · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 6
The market opened on Thursday with a strong[?] mand for Golden Pyke shares, at advanced rates. The action of the directors in deciding to allot the [?]held by the company to the present holders in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining News. Pinnacle Group S.M. CO
Evening News · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 4
Messrs. Gresly Sukin and Co. have the following report under elate June 13, from the mining manager of the Pinnacle Group Silver Mining Company. We are still driving to the north and south, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Department of Public Works and Mines, Brisbane, 4th June, 1885. to Contractors and Others. New Public Offices, Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 2
TENDERS 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 Public Offices at Brisbane. Tenders to be endorsed "New Public Offices, Brisbane."…
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Evening News · Monday 29 June 1885 · page 6
According to the MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL, the Taradale goldfield in now trending toward Elphinstone, and there is little doubt that the opinion of Messrs. Aplin and Ulrick, the geologists, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Mining in China
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
It is said that the Chinese Government, casting aside national prejudice, are on the point of working the coal mines of China in a more systematic manner than has hitherto been done, calling in the aid of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]Onk-wearmonth Colliery Co
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 6
The changer of the Monk-Wearmonth Colliery company reports having received a telegram on Saturday last from Minmi notifying that the Government diamond drill passed through a splendid seam of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wallsend Miners
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
WALLSEND, Monday.—On of the largest meetings of miners ever held in Wallsend took place in Harris's s Hall on Saturday night. The object of the meeting was to rescind a resolution, passed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silver Mine Phenomenon
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
At Three Forks, Montana (said the Chicago JOURNAL OF COMMERCE), a silver mine has lately been opened, and a very strange phenomenon connected with it is that of a fissure out into in working. which…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 5
The manager of the Monk Wearmouth Colliery Company reports having received a telegram on Saturday last from Miami, stating that the Government diamond drill passed through a splendid seam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining News
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
GRAFTON, Monday.—Quite a reaction has taken place on the Solferino goldfields, owing to the recent finds, which are very rich. In connection with the field, it is rumored in Liousville that a party which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. Victorian Items
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 6
In Kyneton the yield of amalgam for the second fortnight of the Federal Company was 191oz. The amount of the gold has not been telegraphed. In Inglewood the Marwell Company's return for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News by Telegraph. Mining
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 5
WAGGA, Monday. -- Mr Taylor, a director of the New Bangatira Gold mining Company, brought 18½oz from the mine, situated at Yarrara, on Saturday, being the result of the first crashing of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Silver Mining at Emmaville
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
EMMAVILLE, Monday.—A company has teen formed at Tent Hill to work and develop a forty acres Mock on the Big Plant silver lode, to be known as the Big Plant Silver Minify Co…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Watts Gully Goldfield (S.a.)
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
Whatever the ultimate success of tho Watts Golly goldfield may be there can be no doubt that it has been exceedingly useful in providing employment for a large number of men during a dull period of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Gippsland Goldfield
Evening News · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 3
Croagingalong, near the centre of which the new discovery of gold in Gippeland. is situated, is an immense and almost unknown territory, the nearest house being fifty miles off. Tin, lead, and marble…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Rangatira Gold Mine
Evening News · Wednesday 1 July 1885 · page 3
WAGGA, WAGGA, Wednesday.—With reference to the bar of gold from the New Rangatira mine, the mining manager reports that he has [?]et it to Sydney for assay, and it is expected to give a return of £700…
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