Braidwood Gold Escort. (By Telegraph.)
BRAIDWOOD, Thursday.--The escort leaves to-morrow with 400[?]z, of gold, sent by the Bank of New South Wales, Araiuen. Considering that owing to the dry weather only two…
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Mining Near Gundagai. (By Telegraph.)
GUNDAGAI, Thursday.--The Wagga Gold-mining Company at Bongongolongo have completed the election of their crushing p[?]ant, which consists of a [?]-stamper battery. They…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lithgow Colliery Disaster. Adjournment of the Inquest. (By Our Special Reporter.)
The inquest upon the bodies of the five men—Thomas Mantle, Thomas Howe, Joseph Buzza, Isaiah Hyde, and Launcolot Allison—who lost their lives by the catastrophe which occurred in the Lithgow Valley Colliery on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Inverell
An extraordinary yield of diamonds has been obtained in Woods, Moore, Knapton, and Morrow's claim, near Inverell. 2400 stones, weighing 625 caiats, have been procured by four men in four weeks, of which 302 carats…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Croydon Goldfield. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
[?] lengthy report on the Croydon goldfield has been, forwarded to the Under-Secretary of Mines by Warden Samwell. He states that the number of protection areas is 48, and of registered claims 70. The number…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Mining
The recent disaster at Lithgow has been the worst of the kind that we have had in this colony. We hare had gas explosions before, and have had men seriously burnt, though it has never been positively…
Continued on Trove, page 867 →Burwood Colliery
This valuable property, comprising some 3000 acres of the host coal land in the colony, is situated six milos from Newcastle, the shipping port of the Hunter River coal district. There are various seams…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining. Three Pounds Weight of Gold
TAMWORTH, Monday.—George Borellas has discovered a new quartz reef about two miles south of Bowling Alley Point. He has been in the mountains prospecting for payable reefs the last two or three months and has now…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lithgow Colliery Explosion
FolloWing so closely upon the first disaster at the Lithgow Valley Colliery, the appalling catastrophe that occurred on Monday in the same mine comes as a shock and a cruel surprise…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Colliery Disaster at Lithgow
After the page in which is published an account of the deplorable colliery accident at Lithgow went to press, we received telegraphic message from our reporter there, to the effect that on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 869 →Mining
The telegraphic Intelligence published about a fortnight ago in relation to the Kimberley diggings is now corroborated by Perth files of that date, which, however, convey very little…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lithgow Colliery Disaster. the Resumed Inquest
The inquiry into the circumstances which led to the death of the five men who perished in the Lithgow Valley Colliery on Monday, was resumed in Lithgow on Thursday and was adjourned until…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Catastrophe at the Lithgow Colliery
The third colliery disaster has happened, and we hope that,according, to the superstition it will be the last. The fact of this being the second disaster in the Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Terrible Colliery Disaster at Lithgow. Lithgow
Between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon an explosion took place at the Lithgow Valley Colliery, about half a mile from the pit's mouth. There were 13 men working in the shift, five of whom were killed, viz.:âIsaiah Hyde, a married…
Continued on Trove, page 852 →The Kimberley Gold Fields
For a considerable time much excitement has been experienced in mining circles, with respect to the discovery of an extensive gold field in the Kimberley district, Western Australia. The existence of a vast area of highly payable…
Continued on Trove, page 874 →Latest Mining News
RAVENSWOOD S. M. Co.—Watt and Dodds have received the following report from the mining manager for the week ended April 10:—160ft Main Level; Nothing has been done in this face during the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Gold Yield of Victoria
In a report furnished some time ago by Mr. Brough Smyth, of Sandhurst, it was stated that onefiftieth part of the entire gold yield of Victoria had been obtained from an area of half a mile within the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →MINING Parkes. APRIL 19
Splendid stone is being got by Tom and party out at Magpie Gully, in M'Millan, Pennington, and Company's old claim. The former holders of this ground had a crashing yielding as high as ll[?]oz. to the ton; they lost the shoot of…
Continued on Trove, page 875 →Lithgow Colliery Disaster. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Through your columns I venture to hint to the Mayor of Sydney that he will at once convene a meeting of citizens, at which his Excellence the Governor might be asked to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lithgow Colliery Accident. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Reading your thrilling, and unfortunately too truthfull, account of the late disaster at Lithgow, which must have aroused the sympathy of the whole community towards the poor sufferers and bereaved ones, and thinking…
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