MINING NEWS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 78, 30 September 1915, Page 8

MINING NEWS

ROSS GOLD RETURNS. The return of the Ross Goldfields is 530z sdwts of gold from 889 trucks. SYDNEY AS IT IS TO-DAY The question of an underground railway and the erection of a bridge' to connect the city with North Sydney is still seriously discussed, said- Mr. Harold Beauchamp ,to a -representative of The Post. These , schemes would involve an 'expenditure of, it 'is estimated, £7,000.000. He imagined that they would be shelved pending the resumption of normal conditions. "Each time I visit Sydney (he continued) I am struck with its growth and 1 the improvement in the character of its public and private buildings. The finest now approaching completion is that to be occupied by the Commonwealth Bank, on the corner immediately opposite theG.P.O. Many other large buildings ■w.ould: be in progress, but the erection of these has been deferred. owing to the war and the uncertainty that exists as to the future value of money. "As in this country, labour troubles are not conspicuous by their absence. Owing to a difficulty that occurred with one of its hands, the employees of the Australian Gaslight Company, in ( North Sydney, 'downed tools' without notice one day last week, and for two nights that portion of the city was in total darkness: However, the inhabitants of Sydney are now so schooled to the vagaries of labour that they accept such a happening as this in the most, philosophic spirit. 1 '