ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT SMELTING WORKS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 7

ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT SMELTING WORKS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

A recent i«qie of the Sydney Moinin* Herald has tbe following :— "The Government lime? decided, in \ie\\ of the cv!< i nsi\e minim* discoveries t.iuing place thioughoiU the colony to take immediate .«ieps toward* the erection of smelting v^orks for the purpose of ti eating bulk samples of ou\ The-e uoik-^ will form a part of (he new mining school vlm-ii it is proposed to p^tabli^h in Sydney : nnd piovi.^ion li:h beou m-M\o foi "(hem in the sum of £20.000. lvi* been j^l.-uvj] on the l^tunafe^ for a inininq- school. Last yeur. it ma\ l>p miMitionoil. 2200 nssa\ s were msult', anil fins year. should the present rate be ooininneif, there will be between 4<)00 and r>ooo. Tl)cso a^ajs are made in a small cellar in the Minos Department, but. they a'e le^arded as vei} unsatisfaetrry, a< the} ilo not, deal with the bulk, but only with -mall parcels of the mineral oie. l»y (het^tabli-hment of the smelting woik* a ton \\ei<^ht o{ mateuial nia\ be tieated, and a coneet idea would then be formed of the liehne^ of the metal. Similar work 5 ; have been established in connection with the mining school at Callarat. The matter uu* bi ought under the nntiee of P.uhament by Mr Wall, who submitted a motion i» tho ]Iou«c aflirmmg the desirableness of c. ,\ : n«x The motion v.a< withdi vxn upon the Minister of Mines stating that Ilie Government had the matter under consideration.