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Blue Mountains · Mining & the mines
12 stories in Blue Mountains's papers
A MEETING of ratepayers was held at Edwards Hall, Katoomba South. to select candidates for the coming Municipal Election. Mr. W. Griffiths occupied the chair. It was decided that Mr. W. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH reference to the discovery of gold at Oberon a correspondent to the Bathurst Free Press says:- "I see that someone has been talking about the gold which has been got here lately, but I think…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation of Katoomba South residents waited on the Minister for Public Instruction, asking that a public school might be established at the Mines. The deputation pointed out that the Mines is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST week Mr. G. S. Goyder, Hon. Secretary of the theatrical performance recently held at Katoomba in aid of the distressed Moonta (S.A.) miners, received a receipt for the amount raised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST Sunday " yours truly " didn't go to church-- they don't tolerate parrots at such places-- but took wing across Jones' paddock, past Slyre, Shillgate and Co's sacred odifice, to Railway Parade and back…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW, Tuesday.--The ballot to determine the future relations between the Western Miners' Association and the Trades and Labor Council has resulted in favor of withdrawal by a 29 majority. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To find the gold mines in the Biblical Land of Ophir where King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba got their riches, is the romantic task which W. C. Wynkoop has undertaken. Mr. Wynkoop is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday night. A disastrous colliery accident has occurred at Bridgend in Glamorganshire, Wales. An explosion, the vibration of which was felt a few miles away, was followed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday last a ballot took place at the Mines belonging to the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company limited for the purpose of electing a medical attendant to the whole of their employees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused at Gundagai in consequence of the finding of a large nugget of gold weighing 27oz. 12dwt. 3[?] by two miners named Vaughan and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Bank of New South Wales (head office) has received from West Australia some exceptionally rich specimens of gold bearing quartz. The stone come from a claim on the shores of Lake Austin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. A. STEVENSON writes to the Lithgou Mercury as follows : "I am pleased to have an opportunity of giving you the facts, especially after certain paragraphs which appeared in…
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