A terrible accident happened here this morning on the railway line, to a porter named Michael Hickey. It appears that the unfortunate young [?]ellow was engaged shunting at the Elgin-street ...
Article : 109 wordsThe yield of gold for April from the Chiltern Valley (V.) Gold Mines Company's claim is reported at 365oz lOdwt. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn Daylesford (V.) the Rising Star Company cleaned up a fortnight's crushing of 763 tons, the yield being 269oz of smelted gold. The mine is looking well at the different levels. The North Cornisk ...
Article : 71 wordsNEWCASTLE, Thursday—At the miners' delegate meeting on Wednesday the board recommended to the various lodges the advisableness of allowing the Burwood miners to take up ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Desoza lease in Buninyong has expired, and work has been suspended, pending a renewal of it for another five years. The Imperial cleaned up 46[?] tons of stone for 68oz of bar gold, for three weeks. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe captain of the steamship Tenterden, which arrived yesterday from Sydney, reports that when off Bird Island, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, she collided with the steamer Woosung, ...
Article : 102 wordsTo-day was occupied chiefly with stock parades, which attracted a good deal of attention. The horses of the various classes were of a character which cannot perhaps be seen in any other show in the colony, and ...
Article : 167 wordsCARCOAR, Thursday—At Lane's battery, Gully Swamp, Digby and party crushed 25 tons of stone for 36oz lldwt of gold. Croucher and party have at present a large quantity of stone on the grass waiting ...
Article : 99 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday—Unfavorable reports are being received as to the " turn out " from some of the mines at Silverton, ...
Article : 26 words[?]TOWN, Sunday.—Late news by mail steamer from China with regard to the France Chinese war is to the effect that owing to the peace arrangements between France and China, the ...
Article : 344 wordsBINGERA, Thursday—Mining matters here continue very quiet, and work on the diamond fields, is still suspended. The diamond drill at Upper Bingera has finished the last bore on Neal and Company's ...
Article : 55 wordsCOPELAND, Thursday—Kelly and party, of No. 2 East Mountain Maid crushed 38 tons for 123oz. Pritchard Webeck and party, at the prospecting claim at Mountain Maid Reef, crushed 25 tons for ...
Article : 63 wordsCAIRNS, Thursday—Two Melbourne capitalists have taken up a 25-acre lease on the Orient line of reef, Upper Mulgrave, the prospects of the claim having proved so satisfactory that it is intended to ...
Article : 45 wordsSaid a Ballarat correspondent:—An important discovery has been made in the Melbourne Quartz and Alluvial Company's mine, Ballarat. One of the tribute parties, Mr. Prout and his mates, have ...
Article : 437 wordsShortly after the show opened the rain cleared off, and the weather became fine. The ground bears every evidence of care and attention. It has been considerably improved, and in such a manner that if ...
Article : 998 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday—The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in Wallace's Bethanga mine was held last evening, when the directors' action in locking out the men was approved of Afterward a ...
Article : 85 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday—A telegram has been received from Thornborough as follows:—"The discovery of a payable reef outside the Hodgkinson gold fields, about ten miles from the northern point of ...
Article : 69 wordsLUCKNOW, Thursday—Mr. Clement T[?] and Captain Morcour, from London, visited the new Reform mine yesterday, and fired a shot, which resulted in a bonanza valued at £1000. ...
Article : 48 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday—The Government Geologist's notes on the Echunga goldfields recommend the sinking of a series of shafts across the valley between Hahndorf and The Meadows, as he believes that a ...
Article : 48 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—At a large meeting of miners in Kadina yesterday it was resolved to ask the Government to subsidise the Wallaroo mines, in view of the existing depression, out of a fine of £18,000 ...
Article : 82 wordsThe advent of Land Courts in the Clarence district in connection with the new Land Bill, is not likely to induce anything like confidence in the measure or in the administration of the provisions of the Act, if ...
Article : 267 wordsHOBART, Thursday—Mr. Watson and mate, two miners from the Rocky River, on the West Coast, arrived at Waratah on Tuesday, en route for Launceston, with about 150oz of gold, one nugget weighing ...
Article : 88 wordsMessrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. have received the following report from the manager of the Silver Hill Mining Company, no liability:—"Have driven a further distance of 9ft for week ended May 2, ...
Article : 56 wordsA new departure in the Mayoral festivities of the year took place on Wednesday evening, when, instead of the annual ball, his Worhip the Mayor, Mr. Thomas Playfair, gave an assembly, which was ...
Article : 158 wordsA special meeting of the Melbourne Trades-hall Council was held on Saturday night, to consider the Bathanga miners' dispute. Mr. Murphy, the secretary, drew attention to the newspaper reports, stating ...
Article : 159 wordsThe R. M. S. John Elder arrived early this morning from London. Following is her passenger list:— Saloon, Adelaide: Mr. Frank Ransome, the Misses [?]edmead, Mr. F. Drany, Mrs. M. A. Collier. Saloon, ...
Article : 444 wordsA moist important discovery of fresh water, obtained by boring, near Goodooga, close to the Queensland border and north of the Barwon River, has been made, and is reported by Mr. W. B. Henderson, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe returns under the British Coal Mines Regulation Act show that the amount of minerals raised in 1834—that is coal, fireclay, ironstone, shale, and other minerals—was 174,147,819 tons, as against ...
Article : 90 wordsThe New Era, Woodside (S. A.), completed its sixth crushing last Saturday. The result for the last four weeks was 244oz. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Under-Secretary of Mines has received the following telegram, dated May 6, from Mr. W. H. J. Slee, Inspector of Mines, with reference to the late discoveries at Parkes:—Great excitement here ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 9 May 1885, Page 14
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