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The following further telegrams have been received :--The Burdekin River is 72ft. over the bridge. Cattle and pigs are coming down in great numbers. Many houses have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The quiet little mining township of Cargo, nestling in a hollow surrounded on all sides by ridges' and hills, and almost under the shadows of the immense Canobla, Mountains, has not enjoyed any great share…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minister for Mines has received a report from Mr. Wm. Anderson, geological surveyor, on the subject of the Peak-bill goldfield, which the result of a recent visit to the locality…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, March 27.—The inquiry into the explosion—by which 177 lives were lost on February 6 at the Llanerch Colliery, Abersychan, Monmouthshire—has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Brilliant Gold-mining Co. at Charters Towers has cleared up 2400oz of gold from 1100 tons of stone. BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—In all probability…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.--The Coroner's inquiry into the recent fatal colliery disaster in South Wales was concluded yesterday and resulted in a verdict that no one was to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Thursday.--Reports from Zulu Creek state that mining there is improving. Conroy's crushing of 30 tons for 103oz. of gold gave the miners a stimulus to prospect. These…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Thursday. -- Silverthorne's dam, the holding capacity of which is stated to be over a million gallons, together with a well yielding a fall supply of water, has been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--I trust you will be good enough to allow me through the columns of your paper to ask my fellow-shareholders in the above company if it would not be advisable to call an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold has been struck in quartz by prospectors 14 miles from Euabalong, on the Bogan goldfield. Some very good working stone has been taken out, and the prospects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The coroner's inquiry into the recent fatal colliery disaster in South Wales was concluded yesterday, and resulted in a verdict, that no one was to blame for the catastrophe,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The plaintiffs, whose mine is situated at Goulburn, sought to obtain from Mr. C. E. N. Williams, of 158 Pitt-street, the sum of £12 10s, said to be due as the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth calls upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOBART, Thursday.--A rich discovery of reef gold has been made at Cumming's Creek, a tributary of the Pieman River, and the find is causing some excitement. Old miners say…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TAMWORHT, Friday.—A man, named Stanter, alias Russell, was to-day committed for trial for passing off stream tin for gold, and having thereby obtained £15 from a publican in payment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Victorian Mining Department has made arrangements for the representation of the colony at the International Mining Exhibition, to be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary general meeting of the Central Brokon Hill Silver-mining Company, Limited, was hold at the Mercantile Mutual-chambers, Pitt-street, yesterday. The chairman of directors (Mr. G. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—The telegram upon the above subjcet, and the brief paragraph based upon it which appears in your issue of to-day, do not seem to be understood, and I shall be glad if you will allow me to put the case more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Thursday.--Yesterday afternoon two bars of gold were brought by the Southern Cross, being the result of a crushing of about 100 tons of stone from the Central mine. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The old Woolshed gold-mining claim, famous for stirring scenes in by-gone times, is to be opened up again. A company has secured around on the bed of the creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MONMOUTHSHIRE was the scone of one of the moat appalling colliery catastrophes known in the history of the South Wales coalfields in February last. The Llaherch…
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