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A special meeting of the Lambton miners was held to-day to consider a letter which had been received from Mr. Croudace, manager of the colliery. Mr. A. Green was in the chair. A resolution was moved that the letter be not…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →THOMAS Page, a well-known North Queensland prospector, went from Herberton to Cambridge Gulf, where he landed on November 5, and met Larry Butler and party who prospected the Ord and Panton Rivers for three months…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The secretary reports that during the week ended 16th instant the Probert furnace ran.full time, and Nos. 2,3, and 4 part of the week, reducing 485 tons of ore. Total value of bullion returned £1990…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Statistics which have just been published, writes our Bathurst correspondent, indicate that mining is something more than a name as an industry in this district. During 1885 the number of persons actively employed was 1554,…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →Most encouraging reports have been received from Bongongolong reefs. Quite a rush has set in there. The country along the line of the reef has been taken up for over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining' manager (Sunny Cornor) reports, for the week ended January 16, that the main lovel has been extended a farther diatance of 6ft, making the total driven south from main tunnel 101ft. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An accident, very nearly attended with fatal oonsoquonoes, happened at about 8 o'clock this morning in the British Standard Co.'s olaim. Bald Hills. Two men named Prod Foster and George…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An inquest was commenced to-day at Charlestown on the body of John Atkinson, who was killed yesterday through falling down the new shaft which is being sunk on the Waratah Coal Company's land at Flaggy Creek, near…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →SPECIAL.—Correspondents are requested to write on one side of paper only, and to use ink. It is a crnel infliction on editorial eyes and time, and still more cruel to compositors, to place "copy" before them in the form…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. James Govan (chairman of the Pastures Protection Board, Forbes), Mr. W. Hill (of Butterbone), and Mr. M. E. Maher (of Narramine), accompanied by Mr. W. Savers, M.L.A., waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →TARCUTTA.—Eight tons of mixed rock from Egar's reef, Upper Taroutta, crushed at Wilson and Richey's battery, Adelong, have yielded loz per ton, which, considering the character of the stone is deemed…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Volunteer Rifle Club has had a successful year There has been an unusually large number of competitions, and several valuable trophies, presented by different citizens, have been won. The Bathurst company that visited the…
Continued on Trove, page 198 →An important meeting of the Lambton miners was hell to-day, Mr. H. Agnew in the chair. The action of Mr. N. Melville, M.L.A., at the miners' deputation, which interviewed the Minister for Mines last week, was approved…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The monthly escort left here for Sydney yesterday taking 2483 oz. of gold. CARCOAR, FRIDAY. The monthly escort took 640oz. of gold yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →lt has recently been reported that gold has been discovered near Tennant's creek, in Control Australia. Some years ago (said the Adelaide REGISTER), before the gold finds in the Northern Territory, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In the Scottish mining district, although some of the pits have obtained the advance, there are some others which are not so lucky. The last Fife and Clackmannan Miners' Association monthly meeting held in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, December 23.—A despatch from Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, reports that a terrible colliery explosion has just occurred at the Ferndale pit, near there, and that 400 miners were entombed. No details of the catastrophe have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Band of Hope and Albion Console, No Liability, Ballarat, January 22,1886.—No. 11 level south has been driven 22ft. for the fortnight; the stone is very large,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday last, accompanied by the manager, Mr. Thomas Croudace, I went over the most recent working of the Lambton colliery where the refuse band called "jerry"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wellington, Saturday.—Payable gold is being found on the banks of the Macquarie by three or four parties, averaging 60s for each member weekly…
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