AU8TBALA8IA. 155 



coralline limestones. Platinum and Lead are also found in the Alluvial 

 deposits. G. A. L. 



Murray, R. A. F. Special Report on the Freestone-Creek Deep 



Lead, near Briagoloiig. Reports of the Mining Surveyors and 



Registrars, Victoria. Quarter ending June 30, 1874. Pp. 41 



(with plan). Melbourne. 



The " Avon Sandstone " (U. Palaeozoic) visible in the Freestone 



Creek, Gippsland, is unconformably overlain by a considerable extent 



of Tertiary gravels and clays of unknown depth, in which gold is 



reported to have been found in small quantities. It is uncertain 



whether the auriferous ground is a lead or merely the edge of the 



great Tertiary area. The Tertiary gravel is apparently composed 



of the debris of an U. Palaeozoic conglomerate occurring at the 



Gladstone and Maximilian Creeks. R. E., Jun. 



Nicholas, "W. Special Report on the Geology of the Country 

 between Tullarook and Longwood, on the North-eastern Railway, 

 Victoria. Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars, 

 Victoria, March 31. Pp. 39, 40. Melbourne. 

 Between the townships of Tullarook and Longwood the North- 

 eastern Railway runs over U. Palaeozoic rocks, which may have 

 been connected with similar rocks known to exist on the Wild-Duck 

 Creek, near Heathcote. In a cutting near the township of Seymour 

 fossils were obtained, one of which Prof. M'Coy thought might be 

 Triassic. R. E., Jun. 



NowELL, E. C. Report on the Statistics of Tasmania. Paper 

 relating to Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions. Part i. Pp. 

 218-242. 8vo. 



The produce of coal and iron is stated, and analyses of ores given. 



Skei^e, a. J., and R. B. Smyth. Report on the Physical Character 

 and Resources of Gippsland. Pp. 65 (map and sections). 8vo. 

 Melbourne. 



The geological observations have enabled some alterations to be 

 made in the maps of the colony, and seem to show that the divisions 

 marked between the Lower Silurian, the metamorphic and crystalline 

 schists, and the granites and porphyries are not justified. In describing 

 the useful minerals of Gipi)8land, it is said that 461 reefs have been 

 proved to be auriferous. The metalliferous minerals are chiefly iron- 

 ores, argentiferous galena, and oxide of tin. The rare mineral 

 Osmindium is recorded from near Stockyard Creek. No Carboniferous 

 rocks, differing in age from those at Cape Patterson and Cape Otway, 

 have been discovered. Appended is a table, showing the areas of the 

 several geological formations in Gippsland. F. W. R. 



Skey, W. Notes upon the Mineral Oils of New Zealand. Trans. 

 New-Zealand Inst. vi. pp. 252-259. 



