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  2. The South African Gold Fever.

    To anyone who has the slightest knowledge of the goldfields of South Africa it is a pitiful sight just now to watch the departure of a Cape steamer outward bound, bearing its load of ...

    Article : 666 words
  3. Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales.

    Ethel May Gold-mining Co— December 24-No. 4 drive: There is no change to report in the character of reef; it still shows the same fine body of stone previously reported. The stope ...

    Article : 637 words
  4. Scientific and Useful. A NEW BLOWPIPE.

    At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences M. Pasquelin exhibited a new blowpipe of a single tube connected by an indiarubber tube with a carburator. A cylinder of wire gauge ...

    Article : 89 words
  5. Mining at Hill End.

    A correspondent writes: Mining appears to be brightening up again at Hill End, judging from the fact that several companies are about to put machinery on their properties. Messrs. Emmett ...

    Article : 214 words
  6. Queensland.

    Mont Albion— The Vulcan Co.'s mine at Irvinebank is on an immense body of tin ore; chat from deep ground yielding from 30 to 60 percent. A dividend of £4000 has been paid, the ...

    Article : 191 words
  7. CLIMATIC PERIODS.

    In the year 1880, according to Professor Bruckner, we had reached the maximum of a damp period, and are now approaching the maximum of a dry period, due about the year 1900. The ...

    Article : 98 words
  8. A DOUBLE PLANET.

    A writer in KNOWLEDGE shows that our moon is comparatively by far the largest satellite in the solar system. Absolutely it is smaller than the largest satellite of Jupiter or Saturn's Titan, ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. Victoria.

    Ballarat Crushings— Bald Hill Creek United, December 20: Cleaned up for 19oz retorted gold. Last Chance United, December 24: Cleaned up for 149oz 11dwt. North Woah Hawp: ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. Broken Hill Smeltings.

    Proprietary Co— Number of furnaces running, 12; ore treated, 5553 tons; bullion obtained, 845 tons; total silver contents. 180,640oz. South Co— Ore treated, 414 tons; bullion ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. THE PREVENTION OF SCURVY.

    James Haviland, an English surgeon of repute, devised a plan more than 20 years ago for the prevention of scurvy on board ship, which has been recently noticed in the LANCET. Dr. ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. ENGLISH CONVICT PRISONS.

    The report of Sir Edward Du Cane, director of English convict prisons, which has recently been issued, is said to be a very encouraging document. The number of persons sentenced to penal ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. West Australia.

    Perth— January 2: Crusbings at Yilgarn gave the following results: Central, 68 tons, for 72oz 3dwt; Fraser and Co., 208 tons, for 251oz 11dwt; M'Intosh and Co., 150 tons, for 124oz. ...

    Article : 33 words
  14. Managers' Reports.

    December 26: The north drive at the Primrose shaft has been driven a farther distance of 12 feet; total distance from shaft, 163 feet. The reef is from 1 foot to 18 inches wide, carrying a ...

    Article : 533 words
  15. Tasmania.

    Launceston— December 31: The Tasmanian Co. has crushed 904 tons for a yield of 1163oz of gold. ...

    Article : 18 words
  16. New Zealand.

    Reefton Returns— December 12: Globe, 263oz amalgam, from 190 tons crushed; No. 2 Dark, 87oz amalgam, from 84 tons crushed; United Italy Tributors, 181oz 18dwt gold, from ...

    Article : 40 words
  17. THE WEAR OF STEEL RAILS.

    A Belgian statistician has compiled some figures on the subject of the wear of steel rails, according to which, under normal conditions, every geographical mile of railway track loses ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. Mining Progress at Gulgong.

    Our correspondent, writing on January 1, says: The Happy Valley Syndicate Co., near Standard Lead, Gulgong, which struck payable quartz in the drive 60 feet distant from their shaft, have ...

    Article : 551 words
  19. The Paient Office.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 261 words
  20. THE ENGLISH COALFIELDS.

    Some remarks on the possible exhaustion of English coalfields have led to a note in an English contemporary, which says that "coal itself could be distilled for oil first and then be used for fuel ...

    Article : 138 words
  21. THE RATTLE OE THE RATTLESNAKE.

    The object of the rattle has always been a puzzle to the naturalist. It is hardly to be conceived that Providence, that is so kind in providing various living creatures with weapons ...

    Article : 210 words
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