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Mr. J. Cook, M.L.A., has prepared a petition for presentation to the Minister for Mines requesting the Minister to consider the advisability of disallowing leases on the Wyalong goldfield. In support of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reports of fresh finds continue to come in, but it is hard to tell which are correct. An ironstone reef, running through the main street in the centre of the town settlement, is being opened up. The report of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--A Victorian mining expert reports favorably on a proposal to try deep sinking on the Thames, Reefton, and Otago goldfields…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BARMEDMAN, Wednesday.--From present appearances Wyalong promises to be, in point of numbers, one of the most remarkable rushes Australia has ever seen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- The suspension of work at the Lambton colliery, owing to the strike of the wheelers, continues, and there is no immediate prospect of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Victory (Charters Towers) G.M. Company has resumed the payment of dividends, the 11th dividend of 6d per share having been declared, and is payable at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Thursday. -- It is understood that the directors of the Broken-hill Proprietary mine will reach here on April 4, when it is expected that, amongst other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Tuesday, 6th February, the men engaged on the work connected with the sewage at the bottom end of Headham-vale, Queen's Park, and close to Smedley-lane, came upon a seam of coal while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Marsden, Haughey and party, who have taken up a block claim at Kemp's Hill, one mile from town, have had several parcels of dirt from the various, levels tested with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An adjourned meeting, to consider the provisions of the Mining on Private Lands Bills, was last night held at the corner of George and Engine streets. From the window of the Mansion House Hotel addresses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An extremely interesting and important report, dealing with the phenomena of colliery explosions, has been made by Mr. Henry Hall, one of her Majesty's inspectors of mines, to the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A special general meeting of shareholders in the Central Broken Hill Silver-mining Company, No Liability, was held yesterday at the Mercantile Mutual-chambers, Pitt-street, with the object, as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The schooner Ivanhoe, belonging to Messrs. Burns, Philip, and Co., arrived in Port Jackson yesterday from New Guinea, where she left on the 4th inst. Captain Steele, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The recent important discoveries of gold at Wyalong and in other parts of New South Wales are attracting considerable public interest, and consequently a few facts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was pretty evident on board the Ivanhoe, as that vessel yesterday anchored in the harbour from New Guinea, that something out of the common had taken place in the tropical British colony that lies off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Sloe, the Chief Inspector of Mines, returned to Sydney from Wyalong yesterday. Mr. Slee's views upon the field have already been gives in a report by him to his department, and published in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rich find of gold is reported from Mallacoota, 30 milos from Orbost, in the wilds of Croajingalong, A party of prospectors went up three weeks ago, and a few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Slee, has come back from Wyalong imbued with the idea that the new discovery is the most important that has been made in the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LITHGOW, Thursday. -- A letter written by a Lithgow district miner from the Murchison goldfield gives a lengthy account of the field and its prospects. At the time of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Slee, has returned from Wyalong, and was at his office yesterday. Mr. Slee, as his report published in our issue of Wednesday…
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